ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,026, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LEMON INC. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Methods and apparatuses for cross-component prediction" was invented by Zhipin Deng (Beijing), Kai Zhang (Los Angeles) and Li Zhang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of video coding, comprising receiving the code block and one or more neighbor samples and determining the value of beta based on at least one of an average chroma value, a midrange chroma value, a median chroma value, an average luma value, a midrange luma value, or a median luma value of two or more ...