ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,110, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Metrics and messages to improve experience for 360-degree adaptive streaming" was invented by Yong He (San Diego), Yan Ye (San Diego) and Ali C. Begen (Konya, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for receiving and displaying media content may be provided. The method may include requesting a set of DASH video segments that are associated with various viewports and qualities. The method may include displaying the DASH video segments. The method may include determining a latency metric based on a time difference between the display of a ...