ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,403, issued on March 11, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method and device for video signal processing" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise determining an intra prediction mode of a current block, deriving reference samples of the current block, and obtaining a prediction sample of the current block using at least one of the reference samples."

The patent was filed on May 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/199,137.

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