ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,069, issued on March 31, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Low memory design for multiple reference line selection scheme" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video decoding includes receiving a coded video bitstream for a current block and partitioning the current block to obtain a plurality of sub-blocks. The method further includes, when a multiple reference line selection (MRLS) is applied for the current block, parsing a parameter from the coded video bitstream, the parameter indic...