ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,060, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea), INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY (Goyang-si, South Korea) and INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording media storing bitstream" was invented by Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Gon Kim (Goyang-si, South Korea), Do Hyeon Park (Goyang-si, South Korea) and Yung Lyul Lee (Seoul, Sou...