ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,875, issued on July 22, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Two-step cross-component prediction mode" was invented by Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Jizheng Xu (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video bitstream processing includes generating, using a first video block derived from a third video block of a first component and having a first size, a prediction block for a second video block of a video related to a second component, where the first component is different from the second c...