ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,060, issued on April 21, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Setting PDU set importance for immersive media streams" was invented by Serhan Gul (Berlin), Igor Danilo Diego Curcio (Gravina de Catania, Italy), Saba Ahsan (Rawalpindi, Pakistan) and Gazi Karam Illahi (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sender of a bitstream of coded 360-degree video defines PDU sets of the coded 360-degree video. The PDU sets include spatial region(s) of a frame of the coded 360-degree video. The sender assigns protocol data unit set importances to the protocol data unit sets, wherein the assignment is based on a spatial loca...