ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,462, issued on June 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Reference motion vector candidates bank improvements" was invented by Han Gao (San Diego), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, device, and non-transitory storage medium for decoding video data are provided. One or more vector predictors associated with a current block from a reference motion vector candidate bank may be retrieved, the one or more retrieved motion vector predictors comprising at least one or more motion vectors associated with one or more alrea...