ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,503, issued on June 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Derivation on sublayer-wise output layer set" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for decoding a coded video sequence may include obtaining the coded video sequence, and decoding the coded video sequence. A a value of a temporal sublayer identifier of a video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit in the coded video sequence is constrained to be less than or equal to a value of vps_max_sublayers_minus1,...