US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on July 14 for "Encoder and decoder, encoding method and decoding method for versatile spatial partitioning of coded pictures" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,122, issued on July 14, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Encoder and decoder, encoding method and decoding method for versatile spatial partitioning of coded pictures" was invented by Valeri George (Berlin), Tobias Hinz (Berlin), Jackie Ma (Berlin), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Robert Skupin (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Jens Brandenburg (Berlin), Christian Lehmann (Berlin), Adam Wieckowski (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoder for decoding an encoded video signal inclu...