ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,075, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Required supplementary enhancement information messages through profile" was invented by Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain video data comprising at least one coded picture, identify, by a decoder, at least one first supplementary information enhancement (SEI) message type included with the video data and from a plurality of SEI message types that is required to be processed by the decoder, and the first SEI message ty...