ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,422, issued on May 20, 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 video encoding and decoding, and in particular to handling of chroma subsampled formats in machine-learning-based video coding. Corresponding apparatuses and methods enable the processing for encoding and decoding of a respective picture portion that includes a luma component and a chroma comp...