ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,059, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation (Seoul, South Korea) and Industry-Academia Cooperation Group of Sejong University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for encoding and decoding image using adaptive DCT coefficient scanning based on pixel similarity and method therefor" was invented by Se-Yoon Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Hae-Chul Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong-Il Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung-Kwon Beack (Seoul, South Korea), In-Seon Jang (Gunpo-si, South Korea), Jae-Gon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung-Ae Moon (Daejeon, South Ko...