ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,325, issued on April 7, was assigned to Lemon Inc..

"Signaling of preselection information in media files based on a movie-level track group information box" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. The mechanism includes determining when playing only a track would result in an incomplete experience, a track in movie (track_in_movie) flag is set to zero to prevent players from playing only the track. A conversion between a visual media data and a media data file is performed based on the track_in_movie flag."

The patent was filed on May 2, 2023, under A...