ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,825, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China) and Tsinghua University (Beijing).

"Encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses with multiple image block division manners" was invented by Changcai Lai (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoran Cao (Beijing), Yongbing Lin (Beijing), Lingzhi Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Yun He (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method with multiple image block division manners is disclosed, including: receiving a bitstream; parsing the bitstream to determine that a current image block is required to be partitioned; in response to determine that the current image blo...