ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,982, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and apparatus therefor" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: deriving a multilayer output layer set (OLS) index of a target OLS in a list of multilayer OLSs; acquiring hypothetical reference decoder (HRD)-related information and decoded picture buffer (DPB)-related information for the target OLS, on the basis of the multilayer OLS index; and decoding a picture within the...