ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,003, issued on March 25, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Video encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium having bitstream stored therein" was invented by Seung Hyun Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and appar...