US Patent Issued to Dolby International on Jan. 13 for "Methods, apparatus and systems for signaling preselections" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,471, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dolby International AB (Dublin).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for signaling preselections" was invented by Stephan Schreiner (Birgland, Germany), Jan Mueller (Furth, Germany) and Wolfgang A. Schildbach (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method of processing a media stream. The method comprises receiving the media stream packetized in accordance with a predefined transport format, wherein the packetized media stream comprises a plurality of hierarchical boxes each being associated with a respective box type identifier, and wherein the plurality of boxes comprise...