ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,868, issued on July 22, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Video coding using multi-model linear model" was invented by Hong-Jheng Jhu (Beijing), Xiaoyu Xiu (Beijing), Yi-Wen Chen (Beijing), Wei Chen (Beijing), Che-wei Kuo (Beijing), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device performs a method of decoding video data by generating a multi-model linear model (MMLM) including a first linear model between the minimum luma value and the threshold luma value, and a second linear model between the threshold luma value and the maximum luma v...