ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,620, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for cross-component geometric/wedgelet partition derivation" was invented by Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a method includes receiving video data including a picture, wherein the picture is coded using at least a first color component and a second color component, and the picture includes a first block that i...