ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,040, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for signaling temporal sublayer information for coded video. According to an aspect of an invention, a flag indicating whether a syntax element specifying a maximum number of temporal sublayers that are present in each coded layer video sequence referring to a sequence parameter set is ...