ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,609, issued on June 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"HRD parameters for layer based conformance testing" 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 plurality of sublayer representations into a bitstream. Hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) parameters and a sublayer coding picture buffer (CPB) parameters present flag (sublayer_cpb_params_present_flag) are also encoded into the bitstream. The HRD parameters for all sublayer representations with temporal identifiers (TemporalIds) less than a maximum Temp...