US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on July 21 for "Multiple merge lists and orders for inter prediction with geometric partitioning" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,726, issued on July 21, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Multiple merge lists and orders for inter prediction with geometric partitioning" was invented by Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Yue Wang (Beijing) and Na Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which include geometric partitioning, are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes making a decision, based on a priority rule, regarding an order of insertion of motion candidates into a motion ca...