ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,856, issued on July 22, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Signaling output picture size for reference picture resampling" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform acquiring an input bitstream comprising metadata and video data, decoding the video data, determining whether the metadata comprises at least one flag signaling at least one component of a picture size of at least one pi...