ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,472, issued on June 17, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Methods for palette prediction" was invented by Ru-Ling Liao (Beijing), Mohammed Golam Sarwer (Cupertino, Calif.), Yan Ye (San Diego) and Xuan Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for encoding video. The method includes: receiving a video frame for processing; generating one or more coding units of the video frame; and processing one or more coding units using one or more palette predictors having palette entries, wherein each palette entry of the one or more palett...