ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,859, issued on May 13, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding images using a motion vector" was invented by Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon-si, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon-si, South Korea), Se Yoon Jeong (Daejeon-si, South Korea), Suk Hee Cho (Daejeon-si, South Korea), Dong San Jun (Daejeon-si, South Korea), Jong Ho Kim (Daejeon-si, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon-si, South Korea), Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon-si, South Korea) and Jin Woong Kim (Daejeon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pres...