ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,840, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for signaling and performing secondary transforms" was invented by Yushin Cho (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (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: "Methods and systems for encoding and decoding video are described. In one aspect, a method of video decoding includes receiving video data that includes a first block and a first syntax element from a video bi...