ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,708, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for patch book-based encoding and decoding of video data" was invented by Dong Gyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea), Joo Hyung Byeon (Seoul, South Korea), Sea Nae Park (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: "Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for patch book-based encoding and decoding of video data. A video data deco...