ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,824, issued on May 12, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for entropy coding for recursive intra region partitioning" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yushin Cho (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (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 coding includes receiving a video bitstream including a plurality of coding blocks; identifying a coding region that includes two or more coding blocks of the plurality of cod...