ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,729, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method for parameter set reference in coded video stream" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Stephan Wenger (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor, including obtaining a coded video sequence from the encoded video bitstream; obtaining a picture unit from the coded video sequence; obtaining a PH NAL unit included in the picture unit; obtaining at least one coded slice NAL unit included in the picture unit; decoding a c...