ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,966, issued on July 8, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"System and method for reshaping and adaptation of high dynamic range video data" was invented by David M. Baylon (San Diego), Zhouye Gu (San Jose, Calif.), Ajay Luthra (San Diego), Koohyar Minoo (San Diego) and Yue Yu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for regenerating high dynamic range (HDR) video data from encoded video data, extracts, from the encoded video data, a self-referential metadata structure specifying a video data reshaping transfer function. The video data reshaping transfer function is regenerated using data from th...