ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,420, issued on May 20, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and device for image decoding according to inter-prediction in image coding system" was invented by Jaeho Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present disclosure comprises: a step of deriving reference picture list 0 (L0) and reference picture list 1 (L1); a step of deriving two motion vectors (MV) for a current block, the two MVs including MVL0 for the L0 and MVL1 for the L1; a step of determining whether to ...