ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,585, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Handling tracks in multiple files" was invented by Kashyap Kammachi Sreedhar (Tampere, Finland), Miska Matias Hannuksela (Tampere, Finland), Emre Baris Aksu (Tampere, Finland) and Lukasz Kondrad (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may be configured to: obtain a first bitstream and a second bitstream; generate a first file comprising a first track and one or more identifiers associated with the first file, wherein the first track comprises the first bitstream; and generate a second file comprising a second track and one or more identifiers...