ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,894, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Content adaptive transform precision for video coding" was invented by Louis Kerofsky (San Diego), Yuwen He (San Diego) and Philippe Hanhart (La Conversion, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for obtaining coded video data comprising quantized transform coefficients for a plurality of blocks, obtaining a first precision factor associated with a first block for performing at least one decoding function on the first block, obtaining a second precision factor associated with a second bloc...