ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,289, issued on May 26, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Tuned line graph transforms (LGT)" was invented by Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Diego) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding may be performed by at least one processor, and may comprise: receiving an entropy coded bitstream comprising compressed video data; generating one or more dequantized blocks, determining whether at least one of a height and a width of the one or more dequantized blocks is greater than or equal to a predefined threshold, and responsive to the at least...