ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,068, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Bilateral matching based reference picture reordering" was invented by Ning Yan (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Wei Chen (San Diego), Che-Wei Kuo (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Han Gao (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the disclosure provide video processing apparatuses and methods for inter-prediction. A video processing method for the inter-prediction performed by a video decoder includes determining a reference in...