ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,015, issued on July 8, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for signaling CMAF switching sets in ISOBMFF" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, and system for encoding or decoding media are provided. The process may include obtaining a track group entry box from an ISO base media file format (ISOBMFF) track associated with a video data. It may also include obtaining a first track among the one or more tracks in the CMAF switching set associated with the video data that has a first alternative group parameter and obtaining a second track ass...