US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 8 for "Video decoding implementations for a graphics processing unit" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,968, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Video decoding implementations for a graphics processing unit" was invented by Daniel Dinu (Redmond, Wash.), Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza (Bellevue, Wash.), Barry Friemel (Redmond, Wash.) and William Chen (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video decoding innovations for multithreading implementations and graphics processor unit ("GPU") implementations are described. For example, for multithreaded decoding, a decoder uses innovations in the areas of layered data structures, picture extent discovery, a picture command queue, and/or tas...