ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,949, issued on April 15, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Quantization properties of adaptive in-loop color-space transform for video coding" was invented by Li Zhang (San Diego), Jizheng Xu (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Weijia Zhu (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a video component of a video comprising a current video block and a bitstream representation of the video, that a first coding tool is used based on a rule for the current vi...