ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,453, issued on June 10, was assigned to Dolby Video Compression LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Coding of a spatial sampling of a two-dimensional information signal using sub-division" was invented by Heiner Kirchhoffer (Berlin), Martin Winken (Berlin), Philipp Helle (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coding schemes for coding a spatially sampled information signal using subdivision and coding scheme for coding a sub-division or a multi tree structure are described, wherein representative embodiments relate to picture and/or video coding applications."

The paten...