ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,826, issued on March 4, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Video block partition based on quinary-tree" 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: "Devices, systems and methods for video processing are described. In a representative aspect, there is disclosed a method for video processing, including: determining, according to a splitting information, for a current video block of a video, a partition mode in which the current video block is split int...