ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,997, issued on June 24, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"DST-7/DCT-8 using 8-bit cores" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Diego), Xiang Li (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding or encoding including receiving information regarding a video sequence for encoding or decoding, determining, for the encoding or decoding of the video sequence, whether to use a first transform core matrix that is of a first size type or a second transform core matrix that is of a second size type, and based on the determining, transmitting information that causes the video ...