By Steve Scherer ( August 12, 2026, 18:15 GMT | Insight) -- An unusual public-private research model that assigned university inventions to a private sector partner produced a 683-asset video-compression portfolio acquired by Dolby Laboratories, and the partnership will continue with a new focus on artificial intelligence, the company's president told MLex this week. A research partnership that gave OP Solutions, a private company, ownership of patents arising from work at Florida Atlantic University, a public institution, led to Dolby Laboratories' acquisition of a 683-asset video-compression portfolio — and the partners now plan to concentrate their efforts on artificial intelligence, the company president told MLex this week....
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