ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,086, issued on March 17, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Merge with MVD based on geometry partition" was invented by Kai Zhang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Jizheng Xu (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed and systems, methods and devices for video processing. An exemplary method for video processing includes: making a decision regarding applying a merge with motion vector difference (MMVD) mode to a current block of video based on a set of MMVD side information, the current block being split in...