ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,610, issued on June 3, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive color transform performed with prediction coding" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Diego), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), 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 video decoding includes receiving a coded video bitstream including a current picture, and performing an inverse quantization on a current block included in the current picture. The method further includes performing, after performing the inverse quantization, an inverse transform on the current block, and determining whethe...