ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,683, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for processing video data" was invented by Jungsun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seungwook Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Joonyoung Park (Seoul, South Korea), Younghee Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jaewon Sung (Seoul, South Korea), Byeongmoon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Yongjoon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for signalling an intra chroma prediction mode and a method for implementing the signalled intra chroma prediction mode, the intra chroma prediction mode taking an int...