ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,962, issued on Jan. 27, 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 method and a device for encoding/decoding a video are provided. A method for decoding a video according to the present disclosure includes generating an inter prediction block for a current block, based on a reference block that corresponds to the current block and exists in a reference picture. The method for decoding the video also includes gene...