ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,006, issued on March 25, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGYC Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Cross-component adaptive filtering and subblock coding" was invented by Yang Wang (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Kui Fan (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video processing, including performing a conversion between a video block of a video component of a video and a bitstream of the video, where the video block includes sub-blocks, where a filtering tool is used during the conversion according to a rule, and wher...