ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,732, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for transform partitioning in a recursive intra region" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yushin Cho (Palo Alto, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video coding includes receiving a video bitstream including a plurality of frames; identifying a coding region in a frame of the plurality of frames, the coding region including two o...