US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on June 17 for "Determining a parametrization for context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,505, issued on June 17, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Determining a parametrization for context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding" was invented by Phan Hoang Tung Nguyen (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoder employs context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding for decoding a video from a data stream. The video decoder determines a parametrization for the context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding."

The patent was filed on Dec. 29, 2020, under Application No...