ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,899, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and CHIPS & MEDIA INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for processing image providing improved arithmetic encoding, method for decoding and encoding image using same, and apparatus for same" was invented by Dae Yeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided ...