ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,018, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Conventional and neural network codecs for random access video coding" was invented by Thomas Alexander Ryder (San Diego), Samuel James Eadie (Munich), Marta Karczewicz (San Diego), Muhammed Zeyd Coban (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Vadim Seregin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for decoding video data includes a processing system comprising one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: determine that a first temporal layer identifier of a first picture of the video data is included in a first set of temporal layers; in respo...