ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,835, issued on May 12, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and devices for multi-hypothesis-based prediction" was invented by Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Wei Chen (San Diego), Che-Wei Kuo (San Diego), Ning Yan (San Diego), Han Gao (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for video coding. In one method, a decoder obtains, for a current chroma block, a non-linear model (non-LM) mode and a linear mo...