ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,738, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for a step-enabled workflow" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for processing a network-based media processing (NBMP) workflow, workflow information is received. The NBMP workflow to process input data is generated based on the workflow information. The NBMP workflow includes a plurality of media processing tasks and a first buffering task. The plurality of media processing tasks includes a first media processing task and a second media processing task. The first media processing ta...