ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,702, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"File format schemes allowing efficient ROI, stream access and parameter set handling" was invented by Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Dimitri Podborski (Berlin), Karsten Grueneberg (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: "File format concepts for video files are described. It is proposed to that descriptive data of a file indicates whether a parameter set for a track of a file is forwarded when jointly decoding ...