ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,097, issued on March 18, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Video signal processing method and device involving modification of intra predicted sample" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image decoding method. The method may include; deriving first reference samples located at the upper end and on the left side of a current block; deriving second reference samples located on the right side and at the lower end of the current block; and acquiring a prediction sample for the current block based on the first and second reference samples, wherein the se...