ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,601, issued on June 3, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Suwanee, Ga.).

"Reducing motion vector information transmission in bi-directional temporal prediction" was invented by Krit Panusopone (San Diego), Yue Yu (San Diego) and Limin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inter-coding video is provided in which transmission bandwidth requirements associated with second motion vectors for bi-directional temporal prediction is reduced. In the method motion vector information for only one of the two motion vectors for bi-directional temporal prediction can be transmitted together with information on how to deriv...