ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,386, issued on April 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Low complexity history usage for Rice parameter derivation for high bit-depth video coding" was invented by Dmytro Rusanovskyy (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding video data comprises updating a coefficient statistic value based on one or more transform coefficients of a transform block (TB), wherein updating the coefficient statistic value comprises, for each respective transform coefficient of the one or more transform coefficients of the TB: performing a derivation process to determine a temporary value, ...