ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,638, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatuses for signaling of syntax elements in video coding" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yi-wen Chen (San Diego), Tsung-Chuan Ma (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Wei Chen (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video coding is provided. The method includes: setting, by an encoder, a first syntax element in a picture parameter set (PPS) specifying whether a picture corresponding to the PPS comprises more than one network abstraction l...