ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,384, issued on June 9, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS (Paris).

"Intra mode derivation for inter-predicted coding units" was invented by Karam Naser (Mouaze, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Kevin Reuze (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intra prediction modes are determined for entry in most probable mode lists for encoding in video encoders and decoding in video decoders. In at least one embodiment, coding modes are derived to determine reference samples to use from inter coded neighboring blocks. In one embodiment, up to five neighbor...