US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on March 4 for "Video data stream, video encoder, apparatus and methods for HRD timing fixes, and further additions for scalable and mergeable bitstreams" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,865, issued on March 4, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Video data stream, video encoder, apparatus and methods for HRD timing fixes, and further additions for scalable and mergeable bitstreams" was invented by Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Karsten Suhring (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: "An electronic device for decoding a picture from a data stream is disclosed, the electronic device includes a processor. The processor configured to decode a first syntax ...