ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,640, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus of inheriting cross-component model parameters in video coding system" was invented by Chia-Ming Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yi-Wen Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Cheng-Yen Chuang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for inheriting model parameters for cross-component prediction modes. According to one method, a target model parameter set associated with a target inherited prediction mod...