ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,966, issued on June 24, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Condition dependent coding of palette mode usage indication" was invented by Weijia Zhu (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Jizheng Xu (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for palette mode coding are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video. The bitstream representation is processed accordin...