ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,031, issued on April 14, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"System and method for combined inter and intra prediction" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego) and Xianglin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video encoding is provided. The method includes: generating, by an encoder, an inter prediction of a current coding block based on an inter prediction mode; generating, by the encoder, an intra prediction of the current coding block based on an intra prediction mode; generating, by the encoder, a final prediction of the current coding...