ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,653, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Signaling of gradual decoding refresh and reference picture lists" was invented by Ye-kui Wang (San Diego) and Li Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of video encoding methods and apparatus and video decoding methods and apparatus are described. An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a current picture of a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that responsive to a picture being referred to by an inter-layer reference picture (ILRP) entry in a reference picture list of...