ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,305, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"On list construction of coded information of inter prediction" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.), Roman Chernyak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Biao Wang (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: "A method includes receiving a bitstream of coded information for a sequence of pictures, the coded information indicates an inter prediction of a current block in a current picture using a formular based inter prediction technique, the ...