ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,633, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for decoding with signaling of feature map data" was invented by Sergey Yurievich Ikonin (Moscow), Mikhail Vyacheslavovich Sosulnikov (Munich), Alexander Alexandrovich Karabutov (Munich), Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev (Munich), Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for decoding data for still or video processing into a bitstream are provided. In particular, two or more sets of feature map elements are obtained from the bitstream. Each set of fe...