ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,103, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Verkada Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"System and method for hybrid video encoding with fallback compatibility logic" was invented by Pushpak Pujari (San Mateo, Calif.), Chris Hiszpanski (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yunchao Gong (Los Altos, Calif.), Alan Anderson (Los Altos, Calif.), Erich J. Kreutzer (Cabin John, Md.), Jordan Wesley Graham Carlson (Carlsbad, Calif.) and William Nicholas Chiu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for hybrid video encoding includes receiving, via a browser, a signal representing a requested media, and determining whether the browser is compatible with high ...