ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,804, issued on May 12, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Method, apparatus, and medium for visual data processing" was invented by Yaojun Wu (Beijing), Semih Esenlik (Los Angeles), Zhaobin Zhang (Los Angeles), Yue Li (Los Angeles), Kai Zhang (Los Angeles) and Li Zhang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solution for visual data processing. A method for visual data processing is proposed. The method comprises: performing, for a conversion between visual data and a bitstream of the visual data, a quantization ...