ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,044, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods of processing image data from an entropy decoder" was invented by Garimella Rama Aditya (Hyderabad, India), Krishna Murthy (Bengaluru, India), Sandeep Nellikatte Srivatsa (Bangalore, India) and Ashish Mishra (Bhubaneswar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a memory and one or more processors. The memory is configured to store image data associated with a logical unit of an image frame. The logical unit includes at least a luma transform unit (TU) and at least a chroma TU. The one or more processors are configured to determine, ...