ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,969, issued on July 8, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kwangwoon University Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for intra-prediction coding of video data" was invented by Dong Gyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea), Joo Hyung Byeon (Seoul, South Korea), Sea Nae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jun Taek Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Wook Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Wha Pyeong Lim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus are configured for intra prediction coding of video data. An apparatus f...