ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,714, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus" was invented by 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 video encoding/decoding method and a video encoding/decoding apparatus are provided. A video decoding method comprises generating an intra prediction mode list based on intra prediction modes of neighboring blocks adjacent to a current block. The video decoding method further comprises selecting at least three intra prediction modes from the intra...