ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,849, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Cross random access point sample group" 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 description of Cross Random Access Point Referencing (CRR) samples is signaled in a visual media data file in International Organization for Standardization (ISO) base media file format (ISOBMFF). A conversion is performed between a visual media data and the visual media data file based on the CRR s...