ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,001, issued on July 8, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatus of motion vector rounding, clipping and storage for inter prediction" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego) and Xianglin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video coding is provided, including: providing a motion vector (MV) rounding process that is configured to perform a MV rounding operation; applying the MV rounding process to at least a first MV used in a first prediction tool selected from a first set of tools including: pair-wise merge candidate, triang...