ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,121, issued on July 14, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Deblocking in a video encoder and/or video decoder" was invented by Kenneth Andersson (Gavle, Sweden), Jack Enhorn (Kista, Sweden), Ruoyang Yu (Taby, Sweden) and Zhi Zhang (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deblocking method for deblocking a boundary between a first block of samples, block P, and a second block of samples, block Q. The method includes determining whether at least one of the P block or the Q block is a combined intra-inter prediction block; and, as a result of determining that at least one of the P block or the Q ...