ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,960, issued on March 18, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for providing media service" was invented by Eric Yip (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hyunkoo Yang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jaeyeon Song (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. According to embodiment, the method includes receiving, from a server, an SD based on URL information obtained from an AR/MR application, processing the SD, configuring at least one media buffer pipeline for a media object of a scen...