ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,631, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Constrained and adjusted applications of combined inter- and intra-prediction mode" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego) and Xianglin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video encoding is provided. The method includes obtaining, by an encoder, a first reference picture and a second reference picture associated with a current block, wherein the first reference picture is before a current picture and the second reference picture is after the current picture in display order. The me...