ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,966, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Method, apparatus, and medium for video processing" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solution for video processing. A method for video processing is proposed. The method comprises: receiving, at a first device, a metadata file from a second device; and determining a descriptor in a data set in the metadata file, a presence of the descriptor indicating that a representation in the data set is an external stream representation (ESR)."

The patent was filed on April 1, 2024, under ...