ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,104, issued on March 17, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Multiview acquisition information supplemental enhancement information" 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 method implemented by a video coding apparatus. The method includes determining that a multiview acquisition information (MAI) supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message is present in a first access unit (AU) of a coded video sequence (CVS) whenever any MAI SEI message is present in any AU of the CVS; and per...