ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,066, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Applications of template matching with fusion techniques in video coding" was invented by Jeeva Raj Arumugam (Rasipuram, India), Ashwin Natesan (Bangalore, India), Vaibhav Pandurang Valvaiker (Bangalore, India), Jay Nitin Shingala (Bangalore, India), Taoran Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Fangjun Pu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peng Yin (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Gary J. Sullivan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for intra-prediction using template matching (TM) in video coding. The proposed methods include adaptive ...