ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,162, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Signaling of picture header in video coding" was invented by Fnu Hendry (San Diego), Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding is provided. The method includes receiving a video bitstream including a picture unit (PU), the PU including a picture header (PH) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit having a picture header NAL unit type (PH_NUT) and an associated video coding layer (VCL) NAL unit, the PH_NUT signifying that a layer identifier (ID) of the PH NAL unit is equal to a layer ID of th...