ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,409, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Inter-frame prediction method, coder, decoder, and storage medium" was invented by Fan Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for inter prediction, and a decoder. The decoder decodes a bitstream to determine an inter prediction mode parameter for a current block; determines at least one first reference block and at least one second reference block for the current block when the inter prediction mode parameter indicates that an adaptive partitioning mode (APM) is used for the current block ...