ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,098, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transporting HEIF-formatted images over real-time transport protocol" was invented by Imed Bouazizi (Frisco, Texas) and Nikolai Konrad Leung (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for retrieving media data, the device comprising: a memory configured to store scene data and image data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: receive data for a bitstream indicating that the bitstream includes one or more overlay images, the overlay images comprising either a single static image to be presented with scene data th...