ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,796, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Decoder-side motion vector refinement and bi-directional optical flow in subblock-based temporal motion vector prediction (SBTMVP)" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry that obtaining prediction information indicating whether a current block is coded in a subblock-based temporal motion vector prediction (SbTMVP) mode. If the current ...