ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,729, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Systems and methods for signaling level information in video coding" was invented by Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.) and Jonatan Samuelsson (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may be configured to signal level information according to one or more of the techniques described herein."

The patent was filed on March 20, 2024, under Application No. 18/610,386.

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