US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Oct. 20 for "Encoding method, decoding method, and method of transmitting a bitstream" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,839, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoding method, decoding method, and method of transmitting a bitstream" was invented by Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Ru Ling Liao (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Jing Ya Li (Singapore), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan) and Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, determines whether ...