ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,636, issued on March 24, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices are provided for decoding a video block in GPM. The method includes: partitioning the video block into first and second geometric partitions; receiving a first GPM with a motion vector refinement (GPM-MVR) enable fla...