ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,102, issued on March 17, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Coding enhancement in cross-component sample adaptive offset" was invented by Che-Wei Kuo (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Wei Chen (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Ning Yan (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data, including: receiving, a plurality of frames, each including a first component and a second component; determining, for a first frame, one or more classifiers for th...