ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,284, issued on May 26, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus using curve based or spread-angle based intra prediction mode in video coding system" was invented by Chia-Ming Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chun-Chia Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Man-Shu Chiang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yu-Cheng Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Yu-Wen Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for video coding. According to the method for the decoder side, coded data assoc...