ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,849, issued on May 27, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device for performing prof, and method for transmitting bitstream" was invented by Nae Ri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Hak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeong Moon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure is performed by an image decoding apparatus. The image decoding method comprises deriving a prediction sample of a current block based on motion information of the curre...