ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,071, issued on March 17, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Interaction of multiple partitions" was invented by Kai Zhang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Zhipin Deng (Beijing), Na Zhang (Beijing) and Yang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism and method for processing video data is disclosed. The video processing method includes applying a first partitioning scheme to a parent video unit to obtain a current video unit and performing a conversion between a video media data and a bitstream based on application of the first partitioning scheme...