ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,039, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwangwoon University Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation (Seoul, South Korea) and University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus for encoding and decoding image by skip encoding and method for same" was invented by Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Se Yoon Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Suk Hee Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Jong Ho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Woo...