ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,360, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Method and apparatus for signaling subpicture partitioning information" was invented by Jie Chen (Beijing), Yan Ye (San Diego), Jiancong Luo (Skillman, N.J.) and Ru-Ling Liao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for signaling subpicture partitioning information. An exemplary method includes: determining, according to a subpicture information present flag signaled in a bitstream, whether the bitstream comprises subpicture information; and in response to the bitstream comprisin...