ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,115, issued on July 14, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for constructing intra mode lists" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for encoding and decoding video. In one aspect, a method of video decoding includes receiving video data that includes a first block from a video bitstream, where the first block is encoded in an inter-intra prediction mode. The method also includes generating a...