ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,980, issued on June 24, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"General constraints information for video coding" was invented by Weijia Zhu (San Diego), Jizheng Xu (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing an adaptive color transform (ACT) during image/video encoding and decoding, includes determining, for a conversion between a video including a block and a bitstream of the video, that a size of the block is greater than a maximum allowed size for an ACT mode, and performin...