ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,858, issued on May 13, was assigned to AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Memory latency management for decoder-side motion refinement" was invented by Minhua Zhou (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor processes a received bitstream to generate quantized data and control data. The process also generates decoded motion data based on a portion of the control data, fetches one or more reference blocks associated with a current prediction unit (PU) of a DPR based on the decoded motion data and generates refined motion ...