ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,427, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Video or image coding based on mapping of luma samples and scaling of chroma samples" was invented by Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of the present document, it is possible for various LMCS application cases to apply an LMCS procedure to a block having a dual tree structure. In addition, the coding performance of the block can be improved. According to the disclosure of the present document, resources required for the LMCS procedure can be reduced. Therefore, ...