ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,008, issued on April 14, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive clipping in models parameters derivations methods for video compression" was invented by Roman Chernyak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Biao Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ziyue Xiang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yonguk Yoon (Palo Alto, Calif.), Motong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a bitstream of coded information for pictures. The coded information indicates a prediction of a current block using a model based prediction technique, the model based p...