ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,899, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"Systems and methods for performing motion vector prediction using a derived set of motion vectors" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Vancouver, Wash.), Frank Bossen (Vancouver, Wash.) and Christopher Andrew Segall (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for performing motion vector prediction. According to an aspect of an invention, a motion vector and a corresponding reference picture identifier for the motion vector are received; a reference picture corresponding to a second motion v...