ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,281, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Inter prediction method and apparatus, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Hongshun Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inter prediction method includes: determining, when a current prediction mode of a current prediction block is a preset prediction mode, a historical prediction mode corresponding to the current prediction block; acquiring adjacent block information about an adjacent block of the current prediction block, prediction sub-block information about a prediction sub-block, and a...