ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,634, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"BDPCM-based image decoding method for luma component and chroma component, and device for same" was invented by Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document is characterized by comprising the steps of: acquiring a block-based delta pulse code modulation (BDPCM) available flag about whether a BDPCM is availabl...