ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,359, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Flexible tile signaling in video coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), FNU Hendry (San Diego) and Maxim Borisovitch Sychev (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes partitioning a picture into a plurality of first level tiles. A subset of the first level tiles is partitioned into a plurality of second level tiles. The first level tiles and the second level tiles are encoded into a bitstream. A split indication is encoded into the bitstream. The split indication indicate...