ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,634, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for prediction based on cross component linear model in video coding system" was invented by Olena Chubach (San Jose, Calif.), Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chun-Chia Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Man-Shu Chiang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chia-Ming Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yu-Ling Hsiao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Hsu (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 system that uses intra predicti...