ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,317, issued on July 15, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method for signaling output subpicture layer set" 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: "A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for decoding a video sequence. Video information corresponding to one or subpictures within a picture is received and the video information includes at least one output layer set corresponding to one or more output layers and a plurality of flags. A first subpicture is identified from among the sub...