ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,448, issued on May 19, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating intra mode tables" was invented by Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yushin Cho (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tianqi Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (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 blocks; receiving a video bitstream that includes a current picture, the current picture including a...