ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,569, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Template matching refinement in inter-prediction modes" was invented by Yao-Jen Chang (San Diego), Han Huang (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego), Chun-Chi Chen (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for decoding video data includes memory configured to store the video data and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that a current block of the video data is inter-predicted in a combined inter-intra prediction (CIIP) mode or a geometric partitioning mode (GPM), determine that template matc...