US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on March 31 for "Bitstream merging" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,058, issued on March 31, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Bitstream merging" was invented by Robert Skupin (Berlin), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Karsten Suhring (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder for providing an encoded video representation. The video encoder provides a level information that indicates a compatibility of a video stream with a video decoder having a capability level out of a plurality of predetermined capability levels as well as a fractional level...