$2,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, video streaming patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Nitish Jaswal, Huang Chien-Cheng, and Calvin Zhong, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,411,742, owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The ‘742 patent introduces a hybrid video encoder that optimizes multivariable solutions across various elements, such as quantizers and motion compensators, by employing soft decision processing.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

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