US Patent Issued to Koninklijke KPN, Nederlandse Ogranisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO on Dec. 2 for "Partial output of a decoded picture buffer in video coding" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,913, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Nederlandse Ogranisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Partial output of a decoded picture buffer in video coding" was invented by Emmanuel Thomas (Delft, Netherlands), Alexandre da Silva Pratas Gabriel (The Hague, Netherlands), Hendrikus Nathaniel Hindriks (Gouda, Netherlands) and Emmanouil Potetsianakis (The Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing video data of a picture is described, the method including: allocating memory for a decoded picture in a decoded pic...