US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on July 28 for "File format concepts for video coding" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,940, issued on July 28, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"File format concepts for video coding" was invented by Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Dimitri Podborski (Berlin), Karsten Grueneberg (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Robert Skupin (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "File format concepts for video coding are described. Embodiments allow for an efficient extraction of sub-streams from a video file. Further embodiments allow for a flexible switching between sub-streams of a video file. Further embodiment...