ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,102, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for timed referenced access unit packetization of haptics elementary streams" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, and system for haptic signal processing are provided. The process may include receiving a media stream comprising at least one haptic track and at least one media track. The process may include obtaining at least one MIHS unit from the media stream and obtain a respective start time associated with the at least one MIHS unit from the media stream. The process may in...