ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,115, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Sample string processing in intra coding" was invented by Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Yue Wang (Beijing), Junru Li (Beijing), Tianliang Fu (Beijing) and Siwei Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and devices for sample string processing in intra coding are described. An example method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a video comprising a current block and a bitstream of the video, whether a first sample string...