ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,280, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding and decoding method, apparatus, and device, storage medium, computer program, and computer program product" was invented by Yibo Shi (Beijing) and Jing Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose encoding and decoding methods, apparatuses, and devices, a storage medium, and a computer program, which relate to the field of encoding and decoding technologies. In embodiments of this application, in a decoding process, a plurality of feature points are divided into a plurality of groups based on a spe...