ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,000, issued on March 25, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and related apparatus" was invented by Junling Mao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a data transmission method performed by a computer device. It is detected that the ith forward reference frame is lost, during video decoding, when the (i+T+1)th forward reference frame is decoded, since a video frame in a first reference frame combination of the (i+T+1)th forward reference frame is located before the (i+T+1)th forward reference frame with an interval of T forward reference frames...