ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,820, issued on June 30, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Signaling for green metadata" was invented by Gaelle Martin-Cocher (Toronto), Srinivas Gudumasu (Montreal), Edouard Francois (Bourg des Comptes, France) and Franck Aumont (Vern sur Seiche, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: executing a streaming session establishment process allowing establishing a streaming session between two peers in a network, wherein the streaming session establishment process comprises receiving (404) information allowing controlling a power consumption of a decoding process applied for decoding a strea...