ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,844, issued on July 22, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Intra coded video using quantized residual differential pulse code modulation coding" was invented by Weijia Zhu (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Jizheng Xu (San Diego) and Hsiao Chiang Chuang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video coding and decoding methods are described. An example method includes performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream representation of the current video block by determining a first intra coding mode to be stored which is associated with the current video block using a differential coding mod...