ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,880, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for optimizing media content data encapsualtion in low latency applications" was invented by Franck Denoual (Saint Domineuc, France), Frederic Maze (Langan, France), Nael Ouedraogo (Val d'Anast, France) and Jean Le Feuvre (Gometz-le-Chatel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one embodiment of a method for encapsulating media data as fragments, each fragment comprising metadata and media data, the metadata describing encapsulation of the media data. After having obtained second media data to be encapsulated within a second fragment and second...