US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 22 for "Representing motion vectors in an encoded bitstream" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,884, issued on July 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Representing motion vectors in an encoded bitstream" was invented by You Zhou (Sammamish, Wash.), Sergey Silkin (Nacka, Sweden), Sergey Sablin (Redmond, Wash.), Chih-Lung Lin (Redmond, Wash.), Ming-Chieh Lee (Bellevue, Wash.) and Gary J. Sullivan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A format for use in encoding moving image data, comprising: a sequence of frames including plurality of the frames in which at least a region is encoded using motion estimation; a respective set of motion vector values representing motion vectors of th...