ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,831, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Entropy decoding method, and decoding apparatus using same" was invented by Jae Hyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Wook Park (Seoul, South Korea), Yong Joon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea), Chul Keun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Young Hee Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Sun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Nae Ri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Byeong Moon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Joon Young Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an entropy encoding method, an entropy decoding meth...