ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,974, issued on July 8, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Motion vector derivation in video encoding and decoding" was invented by Fabrice Urban (Thorigne Fouillard, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Philippe Bordes (Laille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video processing can involve encoding and/or decoding a picture based on determining an activation of a processing mode involving a motion vector refinement process and a second process other than the motion vector refinement process; modifying the motion vector refinement process based on the activation and the second process; ...