ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,527, issued on June 17, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Transform-skip residual coding of video data" was invented by Mohammed Golam Sarwer (San Mateo, Calif.), Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jiancong Luo (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for transform-skip residual video data coding and decoding. One exemplary method comprises: performing a first pass of scanning a transform coefficient of a sub-block of a video frame, wherein the first pass of scanning comprises: bypass coding a parity level flag for the transform coeffic...