ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,599, issued on March 25, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Apparatus and method for coding/decoding image selectively using discrete cosine/sine transform" was invented by Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Se Yoon Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Hae Chul Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Woo Hong (Daejeon, South Korea), Yung Lyul Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Dae Yeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a data transmission system that transmits data by using a relay. The relay selects a transmission terminal from among a pluralit...