ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,044, issued on March 25, was assigned to HUMAX Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Video signal processing method and device using motion compensation" was invented by Jaehong Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Dongcheol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Geonjung Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Juhyung Son (Uiwang-si, South Korea) and Jinsam Kwak (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a video signal processing method comprising the steps of: acquiring a merge index which indicates a candidate for prediction of a current block among a plurality of candidates for the prediction of the current block, which are included in a me...