ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,342, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Video decoding method, video encoding method, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Yingbin Wang (Shenzhen, China), Xiaozhong Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Shan Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a video decoding method. The method includes obtaining a bitstream that needs to be decoded, the bitstream that needs to be decoded comprising a current decoding block, the current decoding block using an intra string copy mode, and the current decoding block comprising a current string; determi...