ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,910, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Coded picture with mixed VCL NAL unit type" was invented by Miska Matias Hannuksela (Tampere, Finland), Kashyap Kammachi Sreedhar (Tampere, Finland) and Emre Aksu (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: indicate a mixed network abstraction layer unit type pictures sample group used to merge video base tracks having a subpicture track; indicate a sample group...