ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,288, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Image or video coding based on quantization parameter information for palette coding or transform unit" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of this document, it is possible to signal information related to a chroma quantization parameter offset through a palette coding syntax, and to efficiently parse and signal index information for a chroma quantization parameter offset list on the basis of information about the...