ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,706, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for adaptive motion vector prediction list construction" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video coding includes receiving a video bitstream that includes a plurality of blocks. The method also includes determining a scanning order for a motion vector list for a first block of the plurality of blocks based on one or more of: a number of neighboring blo...