ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,442, issued on June 10, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for spatial prediction" was invented by Yan Ye (San Diego), Qian Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Jie Dong (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed relating to intra prediction of a video signal based on mode-dependent subsampling. A block of coefficients associated with a first sub block of a video block, one or more blocks of coefficients associated with one or more remaining sub blocks of the video block, and an indication of a prediction mode for the video block may be re...