ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,694, issued on May 27, was assigned to Vasona Networks Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Maximum sustainable encoding bit rates for video downloads" was invented by Roni Bar Yanai (Even-Yehuda, Israel), Ofer Weill (Modiin, Israel) and Vijay Devarapalli (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described embodiments include a system that includes a network interface and a processor. The processor is configured to identify, via the network interface, a state of congestion in a communication channel between a base station belonging to a cellular network and a client device, to calculate, responsively to the state of congestion, a maximum s...