ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,677, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Systems and methods for reference offset signaling in video coding" was invented by Sachin G. Deshpande (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for deriving prediction sample values for encoding data is provided. The device includes one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media coupled to the one or more processors and storing one or more computer-executable instructions. When the computer-executable instructions are executed by at least one of the one or more processors, the computer-executable instructions cause the de...