ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,374, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and devices for geometric partition mode with motion vector refinement" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Wei Chen (San Diego), Che-Wei Kuo (Beijing), Hong-Jheng Jhu (Beijing), Ning Yan (Beijing), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for video decoding are provided. The method includes: receiving a control variable associated with the video block at a coding level, where the control variable enables adaptive switch between a plu...