ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,860, issued on May 13, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Motion information prediction method and apparatus for distortion due to projection formation conversion" was invented by Gun Bang (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwang Hoon Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Woo Woen Gwun (Jeonju-si, South Korea), Tae Hyun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Won Jun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of decoding an image, the method comprising: decoding information for motion information prediction of a curren...