ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,692, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatuses for video coding using geometric partition" was invented by Xianglin Wang (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Tsung-Chuan Ma (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (Beijing), Wei Chen (San Diego), Che-Wei Kuo (Beijing) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are provided for video coding. The method includes: partitioning a picture into a plurality of coding units; partitioning a coding unit of the plurality of coding units into two geometric partitions; ...