ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,509, issued on June 10, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Adaptive panoramic video streaming using composite pictures" was invented by Matthew Wozniak (Bellevue, Wash.), Bakkama Srinath Reddy (Redmond, Wash.) and Amr Martini (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations in stream configuration operations and playback operations for adaptive streaming of panoramic video are described. The innovations include features of adaptive streaming of panoramic video with composite pictures. For example, a stream configuration tool splits an input picture of panoramic video into multiple secti...