ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,286, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DOLBY VIDEO COMPRESSION LLC (San Francisco).

"Multi-component picture or video coding concept" was invented by Tung Nguyen (Berlin), Ali Atelf Ibrahim Khairat Abdelhamid (Berlin) and Detlev Marpe (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The coding efficiency of a multi-component picture or video coding concept is improved by reconstructing a third component signal relating to a third component of the multi-component video using inter-component prediction from both a reconstructed first component signal and a reconstructed second component signal."

The patent was filed on Aug. 2, 2023, under Appl...