ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,001, issued on March 25, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding image method and device, and recording medium storing bit stream" was invented by Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Hyun Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwang Hoon Park (Seongnam-si, South Kor...