ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,996, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Intra prediction method and device based on intra sub-partitions in image coding system" was invented by Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by which a decoding device decodes an image, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: receiving prediction mode information about a current block; receiving intra sub-partitions (ISP)-related information about the current block on the basis of the size and the maximum conversion block size of the current block; deriving an intra prediction mode of the curre...