ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,316, issued on July 15, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Video codec importance indication and radio access network awareness configuration" was invented by Razvan-Andrei Stoica (Essen, Germany), Hossein Bagheri (Urbana, Ill.) and Vijay Nangia (Woodridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for video codec importance indication and RAN awareness configuration. An apparatus includes a processor that detects a plurality of video coded network abstraction layer ("NAL") units of a video coded stream, extracts semantic information associated with the plurality of th...