ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,470, issued on May 19, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Sub-block temporal motion vector prediction for video coding" was invented by Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Tsung-Chuan Ma (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Shuiming Ye (San Diego) and Xianglin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device performs a method of decoding video data by determining a co-located picture of the current coding unit; locating a spatial neighbor block of the current coding unit that corresponds to the co-located picture; determining a motion shift vector for th...