ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,879, issued on May 13, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Chroma coding enhancement in cross-component sample adaptive offset" was invented by Che-Wei Kuo (Beijing), Xiaoyu Xiu (Beijing), Wei Chen (Beijing), Xianglin Wang (Beijing), Yi-Wen Chen (Beijing), Tsung-Chuan Ma (Beijing), Hong-Jheng Jhu (Beijing) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data. The method comprises: receiving, from the video signal, a picture frame that includes a first component and a second component; receiving, from the video signal, a firs...