ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,297, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for chroma subsampled formats handling in machine-learning-based picture coding" was invented by Han Gao (Shenzhen, China), Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich) and Semih Esenlik (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to picture or video encoding and decoding. A picture portion includes a luma component and a chroma component with a resolution lower than a resolution of the luma component. To obtain matching resolution of the luma component and the chroma component, a selection is performed between a down-sam...