ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,177, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method for access unit delimiter signaling" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Stephan Wenger (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining video data, determining an access unit delimiter syntax of at least one network abstraction layer (NAL) unit of the video data, determining whether the access unit delimiter syntax indicates a slice type value of the NAL unit, determi...