ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,008, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image coding method and device therefor" was invented by Moonmo Koo (Seoul, South Korea), Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: receiving image information including residual information and an LFNST index from a bitstream; deriving a transform coefficient on the basis of the residual information; deriving a flag variable related to whet...