ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,053, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"In-loop filtering-based image coding device and method" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments of the present document, information for performing in-loop filtering across boundaries can be efficiently signaled. For example, the boundaries may include boundaries of tiles, slices, and/or sub-pictures."

The patent ...