US Patent Issued to DIVX on July 29 for "Systems and methods for protecting elementary bitstreams incorporating independently encoded tiles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,739, issued on July 29, was assigned to DIVX LLC (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for protecting elementary bitstreams incorporating independently encoded tiles" was invented by Jason A. Braness (San Diego), William David Amidei (San Diego) and Mayur Srinivasan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for partial frame encryption in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method receives a video bitstream that includes several frames, each frame including several independently encoded compression units within the frame, encrypts a portion of each of several compression ...