ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,204, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multiple residual block coding mode" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Tianqi Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video bitstream comprising coded information of a plurality of partial residual blocks of a current block in a current picture is received. Each of the plurality of partial residual blocks indicates a difference between a respective prediction block of the current block and the current block. The plu...