ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,896, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Motion vector processing for video encoding and decoding" was invented by Fabrice LeLeannec (Betton, France), Antoine Robert (Mezieres sur Couesnon, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encoding or decoding picture information can involve determining a coding mode associated with a current coding unit including picture information; determining, based on the coding mode, a first precision level associated with a first portion of a motion vector informatio...