ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,725, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Coding using matrix based intra-prediction and secondary transforms" was invented by Jonathan Pfaff (Berlin), Tobias Hinz (Berlin), Philipp Helle (Berlin), Philipp Merkle (Berlin), Bjorn Stallenberger (Berlin), Michael Schafer (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Martin Winken (Berlin), Mischa Siekmann (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to select a predetermined intra prediction mode out of a plurality of intra-pred...