ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,061, issued on June 23, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for cross-component prediction for video coding" was invented by Che-Wei Kuo (Beijing), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Ning Yan (Hangzhou, China), Hong-Jheng Jhu (Beijing), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Wei Chen (San Diego), Han Gao (Beijing), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding video data. The method including obtaining, from a bitstream, a video block and region information, wherein the region information comprises an index indicating a region selected fr...