ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,838, issued on May 27, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"System and method for video coding" was invented by Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Jing Ya Li (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Che-Wei Kuo (Singapore), Chu Tong Wang (Singapore), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Kato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, generates a first coefficient value by applying a CCALF (cross component a...