ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,070, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Systems and methods for signaling source picture timing information for temporal sublayers in video coding" was invented by Jonatan Alfred Samuelsson-Allendes (Stockholm) and Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may be configured to decode video data based on information included in a source picture timing information message. In one example, a source picture timing information message includes a syntax element specifying a highest temporal sublayer that the source picture timing information message includes source pict...