ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,654, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Video coding bitstream extraction with identifier signaling" 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 an extracted bitstream that is a result of a sub-bitstream extraction process from an input bitstream containing a set of sub-pictures. The extracted bitstream contains only a subset of the sub-pictures of the input bitstream to the sub-bitstream extraction process. A flag from the extracted bitstream is set to indicate ...