ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,966, issued on July 7, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"TMVP derivation" was invented by Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video processing method includes deriving multiple temporal motion vector prediction (TMVP) candidates for a video block in a current picture based on multiple blocks associated with a second block in one or more pictures that are temporally co-located with the current picture, wherein the current picture is excluded from the one or more pictures, and the...