ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,091, issued on March 18.

"Encoder and bitstream for video with frames with global motion" was invented by Borivoje Furht (Boca Raton, Fla.), Hari Kalva (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Velibor Adzic (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder s configured to encode a bitstream to be decoded by a compatible decoder, the bitstream including a coded picture with a first region with a first contiguous plurality of coded blocks and signaling information associated with each coded block. For each coded block in the first region, in response to the associated signaling information, the decoder receiving the bitstream constructs ...