ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,742, issued on July 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods of signaling and semantics in parameter sets" was invented by Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich), Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich) and Han Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Signalling of syntax elements in a sequence parameter set of a video bitstream is addressed. Particularly, it is provided a method of decoding a video bitstream wherein a sequence parameter set, SPS, is coded that contains syntax elements that apply to a video sequence...