US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on June 23 for "Video coding aspects of temporal motion vector prediction, interlayer referencing and temporal sublayer indication" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,062, issued on June 23, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Video coding aspects of temporal motion vector prediction, interlayer referencing and temporal sublayer indication" was invented by Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Karsten Suhring (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: "Concepts for a video coding are described. A first aspect provides a concept for determining an interlayer reference picture for inter-predicting a picture of a multi-layered video data stream. ...