ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,080, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and EWHA UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding video using inter-prediction" was invented by Je Won Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Wha Pyeong Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding apparatus, a video encoding apparatus, and an apparatus for transmitting a bitstream containing encoded video data are disclosed. The apparatuses are configured to: determine first and secon...