ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,749, issued on July 1, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Extension to block adaptive weighted prediction" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding/decoding and particularly for providing extension to block adaptive weighted prediction (BAWP) with multiple motion vectors. One method includes receiving a coded video bitstream; identifying, from the coded video bitstream, a first motion vector corresponding to a first ref...