ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,637, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Slice type in video coding" 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: "Methods and apparatus for video processing are described. The video processing may include video encoding, video decoding or video transcoding. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video including one or more pictures including one or more slices and a coded representation of the video, wherein the coded representation conforms to a format rule that specifies that a condition of a field in the coded re...