ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,073, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Storing misaligned reference pixel tiles" was invented by Sriganesh Balakumar (San Jose, Calif.), Kapil Garg (Fremont, Calif.), Gaurav Avinash Patil (San Jose, Calif.), Rajesh Chowdary Chitturi (San Jose, Calif.), Prasanth Gomatam (San Diego) and Sravan Kumar Gopanapalle (Valley Center, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for caching misaligned pixel tiles. A method includes determining a first codec region including a first region of a frame; determining whether pixels of a first version of a pixel tile were stored in a cache wh...