ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,324, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Mixed NAL unit type picture constraints" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego) and Fnu Hendry (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a flag and a plurality of sub-pictures associated with a picture. The plurality of sub-pictures are contained in a plurality of video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) units. The mechanism determines that VCL NAL units of one or more of the sub-pictures of the picture all have a first particular value...