ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,408, issued on June 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Support of mixed IRAP and non-IRAP pictures within an access unit in multi-layer video bitstreams" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding implemented by a video decoder is provided. The method includes receiving a bitstream including a coded video sequence start (CVSS) access unit (AU), wherein the CVSS AU contains a picture unit (PU) for each layer, and wherein a coded picture in each PU is a coded layer video sequence start (CLVSS) picture; identifying the coded picture from one of the layers ba...