ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,048, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Model parameter derivation for prediction modes based on least mean square optimization" was invented by Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yushin Cho (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tianqi Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a video bitstream includes a current coding block of ...