ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,454, issued on June 16, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Temporal motion vector prediction" was invented by Che-Wei Kuo (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Wei Chen (San Diego), Ning Yan (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system acquires a video bitstream. The video bitstream includes data associated with multiple encoded pictures. Each encoded picture includes one or more coding units (CUs). While decoding a current CU of a picture in the video bitstream, the curre...