ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,637, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for adaptive motion vector candidate ordering for video encoding and decoding" was invented by Liwei Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peng Yin (Ithaca, N.Y.), Yunfei Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Joel Sole (San Diego), Qian Xu (Folsom, Calif.) and Xiaoan Lu (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided for adaptive motion vector candidate ordering for video encoding and decoding. An apparatus includes a video encoder (100) for encoding a block in a picture by selecting an order of motion vector p...