Comcast was granted a patent for improved video compression.

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  "company": {
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    "summary": "Comcast was granted a patent for improved video compression.",
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        "name": "Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy",
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        "name": "Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov",
        "status": "unresolved",
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        "name": "Esmael Hejazi Dinan",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "is_primary": false
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    "tech_area": "video / streaming",
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    "grant_date": "2026-09-01",
    "source_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US12726608",
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      "label": "Pictorial communication, e.g. television"
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    "patent_title": "Flipped templates for reconstruction-reordered intra block copy",
    "patent_number": "US12726608",
    "uspto_assignee": "Comcast Cable Communications, LLC",
    "patent_abstract": "A current block may be encoded/decoded based on a reference block flipped relative to the current block. An indication of whether a value of a parameter (e.g., a block vector difference) indicating the reference block matches a value of a predictor for the parameter (e.g., a block vector difference predictor) may be entropy encoded. The predictor may be selected from among a plurality of candidates based on costs associated with the plurality of candidates associated with candidate reference blocks. The cost of each candidate may be based on comparisons between a template of a current block and templates of the candidate reference blocks, where the templates of the candidate reference blocks have a shape flipped relative to that of the current block.",
    "precision_class": "structural",
    "invention_explanation": "A video codec reuses a mirrored copy of a nearby image block and efficiently signals how that reference was selected, reducing the information needed to encode or decode the picture.",
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curl https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/signals/8825b799-791f-5b5b-bce8-ed402f08066d \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY"

curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/enrich \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":"comcast.com","limit":20}'