ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,838, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Systems and methods for signaling buffering period information in video coding" was invented by Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding video data includes: receiving a buffering period message; parsing a first syntax element in the buffering period message, wherein the first syntax element plus one specifies a maximum number (M) of temporal sublayers for which coded picture buffer removal delay and coded picture buffer removal offset are indicated in the buffering period message; and parsing a second syntax elemen...