ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,053, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for motion vector refinement for geometric partition mode" was invented by Ru-Ling Liao (San Mateo, Calif.), Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.), Xinwei Li (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jie Chen (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, an apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for video data process are provided. The method includes receiving a bitstream comprising a coding unit coded in a geometric partition mode (GPM); decoding a first parameter associat...