ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,842, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Video encoder, video decoder, and corresponding method" was invented by Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method includes parsing a bitstream to obtain a split mode to transform units (TUs) in a current coding unit (CU). Each of the TUs includes a serial number in a one-to-one correspondence with positions of the TUs in the current CU. A transform coefficient of a luminance transform block of a current TU in the TUs is obtained. A transform type of ...