ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,222, issued on March 3, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Group of pictures size determination method and electronic device" was invented by Shengyang Xu (Hangzhou, China), Jianhua Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Yan Ye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an electronic device and a computer storage medium for determining the size of group of pictures. The method includes: determining a plurality of candidate sizes; computing motion complexity of picture sets corresponding to the plurality of candidate sizes; and performing preset operation based on th...