ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,649, issued on May 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Using Coap protocol for video streaming" was invented by Shuai Zhao (Pleasanton, Calif.), Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatus for accessing a Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) server in a media scene description system. A CoAP request can be sent, by a media access function (MAF) of processing circuitry implementing the media scene description system using an application programming interface (API), to the CoAP server to request a...