ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,121, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Device and method for encoding video data using maximum bit-depth constraint information" was invented by Yu-Chiao Yang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding video data performed by an electronic device is provided. The method receives the video data. The method further determines, for general constraints information of the video data, a maximum constraint indication used for determining a maximum value of a parameter included in a sequence parameter set (SPS) for the video data. The maximum constraint indication does not impose a...