ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,910, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for encapsulating uncompressed images and uncompressed video data into a file" was invented by Nael Ouedraogo (Val d'Anast, France), Franck Denoual (Saint Domineuc, France), Frederic Maze (Langan, France), Herve Ruellan (Rennes, France) and Jean Le Feuvre (Gometz-le-Chatel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a method of encapsulating one or more uncompressed images in a media file, wherein the method comprises: generating generic description information describing the images and indicating that the images are uncompress...