ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,963, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Research & Business Foundation SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for video coding using improved cross-component linear model prediction" was invented by Byeung Woo Jeon (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Bum Yoon Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jee Hwan Lee (Gwacheon-si, South Korea), Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jin Heo (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus are disclosed for video coding using improved cross-component linear mode...