ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,036, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Intra prediction with multiple precision of angular parameters" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Khimki, Russia), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Vladimir, Russia) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coder (e.g., an encoder or decoder) determines an inverse angle of an intra prediction mode angle based on: the intra prediction mode angle, and an indication of a precision of the intra prediction mode angle. The indication indicates the precision of the intra prediction mode angle from at least two different precisions. The...