ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,110, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Transform and quantization architecture for video coding" was invented by Mangesh Sadafale (Nagpur Maharashtra, India) and Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a video stream in a video encoder is provided that includes computing an offset into a transform matrix based on a transform block size, wherein a size of the transform matrix is larger than the transform block size, and wherein the transform matrix is one selected from a group consisting of a DCT transform matrix and an IDCT transform matrix, and transformi...