ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,615, issued on June 2, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of using adaptive transform kernel sizes" was invented by Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yushin Cho (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video decoding includes receiving a video bitstream comprising a set of encoded blocks and a corresponding set of transform coefficients. The method also includes selecting a non-separable secondary transform from a set of one or...