ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,769, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NITROCAPT AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Method for the synthesis of nitrogen oxides and nitric acid in a thermal reactor" was invented by Gustaf Forsberg (Orsundsbro, Sweden), Peter Baeling (Ekero, Sweden) and Gerard Jacobus Van Rooij (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for deriving a value for a first syntax element, Syntax_A. The method comprises determining whether Syntax_A is present in a bitstream. The method comprises, as a result of determining that Syntax_A is not present in the bitstream, deriving the value for Syntax_A to be equal to a first value,...