ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,077, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Video decoding method and apparatus, video encoding method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Hong Bin Zhang (Shanghai), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video decoding and encoding methods and apparatuses are provided. The decoding method includes: obtaining a first parameter set corresponding to a to-be-decoded video frame; determining an effective quantization matrix (QM) according to syntax elements included in the first parameter set,...