ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,050, issued on April 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Media packetization for network qualitative communication" was invented by Lijun Dong (San Diego) and Vladyslav Zakharchenko (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media data coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes partitioning media data into a plurality of blocks. A transform is applied to the blocks to obtain a plurality of quantization coefficients. The quantization coefficients are sorted into quality layers of decreasing priority based on frequency, wherein each subsequent layer includes data to incrementally in...