US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandlen Forschung EV on Sept. 2 for "Merging friendly file format" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,863, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandlen Forschung EV (Munich).

"Merging friendly file format" was invented by Yago Sanchez (Berlin), Dimitri Podborski (Berlin), Karsten Gruneberg (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Robert Skupin (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video data for deriving a spatially variable section of a scene therefrom as well as corresponding methods and apparatuses for creating video data for deriving a spatially variable section of a scene therefrom and for deriving a spatially variable section of a scen...