US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on April 15 for "Providing segment presence information" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,968, issued on April 15, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Providing segment presence information" was invented by Martin Pettersson (Vallentuna, Sweden), Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm) and Mitra Damghanian (Upplands-Bro, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided mechanisms performed by a decoder. The method comprises receiving a bitstream. The method comprises processing the received bitstream, wherein: the bitstream comprises a first part of the bitstream, and the first part of the bitstream provides segment presence information, and further wherein i) the segment presence information i...