ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,461, issued on June 16, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Video coding method and apparatus" was invented by Fan Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding method and apparatus are provided in the disclosure. In the disclosure, a weight derivation mode and K prediction modes are used as a combination, so that a weight derivation mode and K prediction modes used by a current block are indicated in the form of a combination in a bitstream. In this case, at a decoding end, a first index is obtained by decoding the bitstream, the first index indicates a first ...