ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,257, issued on May 13, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).
"Method and apparatus for processing of auxiliary media streams embedded in a MPEGH 3D audio stream" was invented by Stephan Schreiner (Birgland, Germany) and Christof Fersch (Neumarkt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods, apparatus and systems for side load processing of packetized media streams. In an embodiment, the apparatus comprises: a receiver for receiving a bitstream, and a splitter for identifying a packet type in the bitstream and splitting, based on the identification of a value of the packet type in the bit stream...