ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,113, issued on March 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Template-matching based adaptive block vector resolution (ABVR) in IBC" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Roman Chernyak (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coding information is received and indicates that an intra block copy (IBC) mode is applied to a current block. Based on the IBC mode being applied to the current block, first adaptive block vector resolution (ABVR) information included in the coding information is obtain...