ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,155, issued on July 14, was assigned to Alibaba Innovation Private Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for video generative compression" was invented by Jie Chen (Beijing), Yan Ye (San Diego) and Bolin Chen (Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a bitstream to get one or more pictures for a video stream includes: receiving a bitstream; and decoding the bitstream to get the one or more pictures. The decoding includes: decoding a picture unit comprising one or more supplemental enhancement information (SEI) messages; and generating the one or more pictures ...