ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,131, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Facilitating management of IMS metadata for scene media" was invented by Arianne Hinds (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Stephan Wenger (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method, device, system, and a non-transitory computer readable medium to determine, whether a set of metadata used to annotate a particular media or media portion in the immersive media stream is coherent with the media or media portion that the set of metadata describes. The method may also include in response to determining...