ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,006, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream" was invented by Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Byeung Woo Jeon (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jee Yoon Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a video decoding method. The video decoding method includes...