ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,704, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for encapsulating video data into a file" was invented by Franck Denoual (Saint Domineuc, France), Nael Ouedraogo (Val d'Anast, France), Frederic Maze (Langan, France), Herve Ruellan (Rennes, France) and Jean Le Feuvre (Gometz-le-Chatel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encapsulating a bitstream of encoded video data in a media file, the method comprising: obtaining the bitstream comprising a second plurality of operating points, video data in the bitstream being organized into NAL units; the bitstream being filtered from an original bi...