US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on April 15 for "Encoder and decoder, encoding method and decoding method with complexity handling for flexibly sized picture partitions" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,959, issued on April 15, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Encoder and decoder, encoding method and decoding method with complexity handling for flexibly sized picture partitions" was invented by Robert Philipp Skupin (Einsteinufer, Germany), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Einsteinufer, Germany), Cornelius Hellge (Einsteinufer, Germany), Thomas Schierl (Einsteinufer, Germany), Karsten Suhring (Einsteinufer, Germany) and Thomas Wiegand (Einsteinufer, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder according to embodiments is provided. The video encoder is configured for e...