ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,070, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for encoding video, apparatus for transmitting an encoded bitstream" was invented by Roman Igorevich Chernyak (Moscow), Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Sergey Yurievich Ikonin (Moscow) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising obtaining a bitstream, the bitstream comprises a transform unit syntax and a coding unit syntax, the transform unit syntax includes a value of a first flag and a value of a second flag related to, respectively, a first chroma transform block and a second chroma transform...