ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,916, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Dependent random access point sample entry signaling" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), Yang Wang (Beijing) and Li Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. A dependent random access point (DRAP) sample entry is signaled in a DRAP sample group. The DRAP sample entry describes one or more DRAP samples. A conversion is performed between a visual media data and a visual media data file based on the DRAP sample entry."

The patent was filed on Jun...