ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,644, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).
"Data structure for multimedia applicatons" was invented by Guan-Ming Su (Fremont, Calif.), Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sheng Qu (San Jose, Calif.) and Samir N. Hulyalkar (Los Gatoes, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a unified container format for delivering different multimedia applications. One embodiment provides a data structure utilized for implementing a plurality of multimedia applications. The data structure includes a first metadata level including low-level metadata used to perform operatio...