ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,108, issued on March 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"High definition VP8 decoder" was invented by Mihir Narendra Mody (Karnataka, India), Chaitanya S. Ghone (Karnataka, India) and Joseph Meehan (Valbonne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoder system, in one embodiment, includes one or more processors and a memory storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the video decoding system to perform an entropy decoding operation in a frame level pipelined manner on a bitstream representative of encoded video data to produce first output data, perform at least one of an i...