ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,371, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, decoder and corresponding methods of most probable mode list construction for blocks with multi-hypothesis prediction" was invented by Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Jianle Chen (San Diego), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich) and Han Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of picture processing. Especially, the disclosure deals with improving the prediction of a block of a picture when decoding or encoding. A method of coding a block of a picture, comprising: obtain...