ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,046, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).
"Extension data handling" was invented by Jonatan Samuelsson (Stockholm) and Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A length indicator associated with an encoded representation of a slice is parsed. The length indicator is indicative of a length of an extension field present in a slice header of the encoded representation. A decoder can then determine to ignore, during decoding of the encoded representation, any value of the extension field in the slice header where these values are identified based on the length indicator. ...