ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,343, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Video encoding and decoding using arbitrary block partitioning" was invented by Dong Gyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea), Sea Nae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jun Taek Park (Seoul, South Korea), Han Sol Choi (Dongducheon-si, 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 method for decoding a target block using intra prediction comprises d...