ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,967, issued on July 8, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for encoding/decoding images" was invented by Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Woong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwang Hoon Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Kyung Yong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for encoding/decoding images are disclosed. T...