ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,369, issued on May 20, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatus of video coding in 4:4:4 chroma format" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiu (Beijing), Yi-Wen Chen (Beijing), Tsung-Chuan Ma (Beijing), Hong-Jheng Jhu (Beijing), Xianglin Wang (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, comprising: receiving, from bitstream, video data corresponding to a coding unit, wherein the coding unit is encoded in inter prediction mode or intra block copy mode; receiving a first syntax element from the video da...