ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,232, issued on April 22, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Splitter and merger functions for multidimensional segmented media data" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including segmenting a multidimensional media stream into a plurality of segments of multidimensional media in a multidimensional space; splitting the segmented multidimensional media stream into a plurality of sub-streams that are capable of being processed in parallel, wherein each of the plurality of sub-streams comprises a segment metadata that is used for ordering the segments within the each sub...