ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,778, issued on July 1, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Coding of neighboring subpictures" 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 that includes a picture with two neighboring subpictures and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a format rule that specifies that the two neighboring subpictures with different types of network abstraction layer (NAL) units have syntax elements with a same first value that indicates whether each of the two neighboring subpictures in a coded layer video sequence is treated ...