ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,457, issued on June 16, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adjustment method on inter prediction with linear prediction model" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Roman Chernyak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Biao Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, 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 that includes coded information of a sequence of pictures. The coded information indicates an inter prediction of a current block in a current picture, and an ...