ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,735, issued on July 1, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Residual and coefficients coding for video coding" was invented by Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Wei Chen (San Diego), Che-Wei Kuo (Beijing), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for video coding. The method for video coding includes: receiving, by a decoder, a residual coding rice constraint flag to provide general constraint controls for at least one of ot...