ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,423, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Low frequency non-separable transform and multiple transform selection deadlock prevention" was invented by Tsung-Han Yang (Folsom, Calif.), Felix Yohan Christian (Folsom, Calif.) and Ken Lo (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes low frequency non-separable transform and multiple transform selection deadlock prevention. The systems and methods may allow for types of transforms performed on the encoding side of a video encoding and decoding system to be determined prior to the transform parameters being decoded on the decoder ...