ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,105, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Block splitting structure for efficient prediction and transform, and method and apparatus for video encoding and decoding using the same" was invented by Joo Hyung Byeon (Seoul, South Korea), Sea Nae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Gyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A block splitting structure is disclosed for efficient prediction and transform, and a method and ...