ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,681, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Intra random access points for picture coding" was invented by Ye-kui Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video having one or more video layers including one or more video pictures and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule. The format rule specifies that a first video picture is an associated intra random access point picture of a second picture and that the second picture are constrained to belong to a same video layer."

The patent was filed on Nov. 21, 2023, under Appl...