The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired
- If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today.
- While the US and EU patents around MPEG-4 Part 2 expired in recent years, until today there remained one patent still active in Brazil.
- This final patent was BRPI0109962B1 - "process for storing and processing image information from successive images over time".
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- If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today.
- While the US and EU patents around MPEG-4 Part 2 expired in recent years, until today there remained one patent still active in Brazil.
- This final patent was BRPI0109962B1 - "process for storing and processing image information from successive images over time".
Sources: Phoronix