ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,624, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Video coding using intra sub-partition coding mode" was invented by Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Tsung-Chuan Ma (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video coding comprises independently generating a respective intra prediction for each of a plurality of corresponding sub-partitions. Each respective intra prediction is generated using a plurality of reference samples from a current coding block. Illustratively, no reconstructed sample from a first sub-partition ...