ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,051, issued on March 31, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Computational complexity indicator" was invented by Mitra Damghanian (Upplands-Bro, Sweden), Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm), Martin Pettersson (Vallentuna, Sweden) and Jacob Strom (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for decoding a picture included in a coded video bitstream. The method comprises obtaining a computational complexity indicator indicating complexity of a computation needed for decoding the coded video bitstream and providing to a decoder the computational complexity indicator associated with the c...