ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,052, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea) and HANBAT NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium for storing bitstream" was invented by Ha Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hae Chul Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Dae Hyeok Gwon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae Ryun Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...