ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,715, issued on May 6.

"Lossless coding of video data" was invented by Mohammed Golam Sarwer (San Mateo, Canada), Jiancong Luo (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for performing residual coding of video data. According to certain disclosed embodiments, the methods include: receiving control information for coding a video sequence; and determining, based on the control information, a coding method for coding a prediction residual signal of a coding block in the video sequence. The coding method is one of a transform residual coding and a tr...