[CharlesW]

FWIW, Via Licensing listed this patent as standards-essential to several MPEG codecs (AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, VVC/H.266), and it's also listed for VC-1 (a SMPTE standard).

[p1mrx]

The openness of those codecs depend on the last patent expiring, not the first.

[CharlesW]

Of course.