ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,868, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Fusion mode for adaptive loop filter in video coding" was invented by Wenbin Yin (Beijing), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Li Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing media data. The method includes applying a fusion mode to an in-loop filtering method, a pre-processing method, or a post-processing method to filter a video unit in video coding; and performing a conversion between a video including the video unit and a bitstream of the video based on the fusion mode used. A correspon...