ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,460, issued on June 16, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Simplified multi-hypothesis cross component prediction models" was invented by Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yushin Cho (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 bitstream includes a current coding block of an image frame and signals a syntax element for a multi-hy...