US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on June 24 for "Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for video encoding and video decoding" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,840, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for video encoding and video decoding" was invented by Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate (Tampere, Finland), Saba Ahsan (Espoo, Finland) and Igor Curcio (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments relate to a method including obtaining information of available quality features of a sender device for providing omnidirectional visual media content; selecting one or more of the available quality features; and providing an indication of the selected one or more of the available quality features....