ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,831, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for chrominance quantization parameters signalling" was invented by Roman Igorevich Chernyak (Moscow), Sergey Yurievich Ikonin (Moscow), Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev (Munich), Alexander Alexandrovich Karabutov (Munich) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inverse quantization of a current block of a picture, the method comprising: receiving a bitstream; obtaining a joint chrominance component residual, JCCR, control flag from the bitstream; obtaining a chrominance mapping informat...