ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,602, issued on June 3, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Storage of intra mode information in geometric partition mode" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method, coded information of a current block in a current picture of a video is received from a coded video bitstream. The coded information indicates that the current block is partitioned into at least a first partition and a second partition based on a geometric partition mode (GPM). The first partition is associated with an intra block copy (IBC) pr...