ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,053, issued on April 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding method and apparatus, and decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Zehui Lin (Shenzhen, China), Kangying Cai (Beijing), Hu Chen (Munich) and Rong Wei (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of media technologies, and disclose an encoding method and apparatus, and a decoding method and apparatus, to reduce a rendering loss caused by compression of probe data. The encoding method includes: first determining a target normalization combination of a probe data group, t...