ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,703, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Tile group partitioning" was invented by Yong He (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may identify a defined rectangular picture area and render video corresponding to the defined rectangular picture area. The system may receive a video bitstream comprising a picture having a header and may receive data specifying a structure of the picture. The system may parse the data specifying the structure of the picture for an identifier corresponding to a defined rectangular area in the first picture and for a tile index of a top left tile...