ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,916, issued on July 28, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Use of general constraint flags associated with coding tools" was invented by Karam Naser (Mouaze, France), Philippe De Lagrange (Betton, France), Fabrice Le Leannec (Betton, France) and Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for using general constraint flags associated with coding tools. The general constraint flags may be configured as indications to indicate whether a coding tool is enabled or disabled for a profile tier level. For example, the coding tool ma...