ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,045, issued on July 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Associating file format objects and dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (DASH) objects" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), Yuqun Fan (Shenzhen, China) and Peiyun Di (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises obtaining media content associated with a first viewpoint and a second viewpoint, wherein a first position of the first viewpoint is static and a second position of the second viewpoint is dynamic; generating a first VWPT descriptor based on the media content and describing the first viewpoi...