ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,756, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Heuristic based caching pictures for video coding" was invented by Younghoon Kim (San Diego), George Patsilaras (San Diego), Shengqi Yang (Carlsbad, Calif.), Tomoyuki Naito (San Diego), Giwon Kim (San Diego), Vladan Andrijanic (San Diego), Vipul Gandhi (San Diego), Jaemoon Kim (San Diego), Aravind Bhaskara (San Diego), Mohit Hari Bhave (San Diego) and Rohit Thulasiram (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining a picture type of a current picture, determining, based on the picture type of the current picture, whether to write the current p...