ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,907, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for signaling of regions and region masks in image file format" was invented by Emre Baris Aksu (Tampere, Finland), Miska Matias Hannuksela (Tampere, Finland) and Kashyap Kammachi Sreedhar (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide an apparatus, a method, and a computer program product. The apparatus includes at least one processor, and at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least o...