ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,052, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Enhanced signaling of supplemental enhancement information" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), Yang Wang (Beijing) and Li Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. A value of an annotated region (AR) object label index of an i-th AR object index (ar_object_label_idx[ar_object_idx[i]]) syntax element is determined. The ar_object_label_idx[ar_object_idx[i]] syntax element is specified to be in a range of N to M, where N and M are integers and N...