ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,003, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Data processing in band offset mode of sample adaptive offset" was invented by Xiaobo Li (Shanghai) and Tianxiao Ye (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes: traversing all reconstructed pixels in a coding tree block, calculating a band value of each traversed reconstructed pixel, and calculating a residual value between each traversed reconstructed pixel and a corresponding original pixel; storing the calculated band value of each reconstructed pixel in a first array, and storing the calculated residual value...