US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on July 1 for "Encoder that performs calculation from which a plurality of discrete integers are yieldable as a calculation result to derive one of the plurality of discrete integers as a quantization parameter threshold" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,717, issued on July 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder that performs calculation from which a plurality of discrete integers are yieldable as a calculation result to derive one of the plurality of discrete integers as a quantization parameter threshold" was invented by Jing Ya Li (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Che Wei Kuo (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Chu Tong Wang (Singapore), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes: circuit...