ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,306, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and devices for geometric partitioning mode with split modes reordering" was invented by Han Gao (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Wei Chen (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Ning Yan (San Diego), Che-Wei Kuo (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for video decoding and encoding, apparatuses and non-transitory storage media are provided. In one decoding method, the decoder obtains a first geometric partition mode (GPM) part and ...