ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,723, issued on July 21, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Reference picture list signaling for multi-view coding" was invented by Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang 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.), Tianqi Liu (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 coding video. In one aspect, a video decoding method includes receiving a multi-view video bitstream comprising a p...