ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,067, issued on June 23, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Signaling general constraints information for video coding" was invented by Jonathan Gan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yue Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Haoping Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a video includes that: a decoder decodes a video from a bitstream of the video; the decoder accesses a bitstream of the video and extracts a GCI flag from the bitstream; the decoder determines that one or more general constraints are imposed for the video based on the GCI flag value and extracts, from th...