ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,836, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Methods and apparatus for improvement of transform information coding according to intra chroma cross-component prediction model in video coding" was invented by Cheng-Yen Chuang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Hsin-Yi Tseng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chia-Ming Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chen-Yen Lai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yu-Ling Hsiao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yi-Wen Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for v...