ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,009, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Temporal sublayer information for video coding" was invented by Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm), Martin Pettersson (Vallentuna, Sweden) and Mitra Damghanian (Upplands-Bro, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining one or more temporal sublayer properties from a bitstream is provided. The method includes determining, from the bitstream, a number N of temporal sublayers for which one or more temporal sublayer properties are specified. The method includes for each temporal sublayer of the N temporal sublayers having one or more ...