ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,305, issued on July 15, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Derivation of a value for each layer representation of a bitstream" was invented by Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm), Martin Pettersson (Vallentuna, Sweden), Mitra Damghanian (Upplands-Bro, Sweden), Jacob Strom (Stockholm), Zhi Zhang (Solna, Sweden), Jack Enhorn (Kista, Sweden), Ruoyang Yu (Taby, Sweden) and Du Liu (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for processing a bitstream. The method comprises determining a value, N, wherein N identifies a number of ordered layer representations, wherein N is greater than ...