ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,299, issued on April 7, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).
"Lossless mode for versatile video coding" was invented by Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Fabrice Leleannec (Betton, France), Karam Naser (Mouaze, France) and Edouard Francois (Bourg des Comptes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lossless coding mode is proposed in a video coding system comprising a plurality of coding tools, some being lossy by design, some of which can be adapted to become lossless or near lossless. To enable a lossless mode in such system, it is proposed to disable the tools that are lossy by design and use only...