ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,501, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"HRD parameters for layers" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes encoding a bitstream comprising one or more layers of coded pictures. A hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) parameters syntax structure is encoded into the bitstream. The HRD parameters syntax structure specifies that all of the layers are associated with a same number of coded picture buffer (CPB) delivery schedules. A set of bitstream conformance tests are performed on the layers based o...