ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,345, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Boundary strength determination for deblocking filters in video processing" was invented by Li Zhang (San Diego), Weijia Zhu (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing) and Jizheng Xu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for visual media processing is disclosed. The method includes determining whether a pair of adjacent blocks of visual media data are both intra block copy (IBC) coded and selectively applying, based on the determination, a deblocking filter (DB) process by identifying a boundary at a vertica...