ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,713, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Recovery point signaling in video coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a gradual decoding refresh (GDR) picture, a recovery point picture following the GDR picture in decoding order, and a header associated with the GDR picture. The header includes a picture order count (POC) least significant bit (LSB) value coded prior to a recovery POC value. A POC for the GDR picture is determined based on the POC LSB value. ...