ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,906, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for image coding based on decoder-side motion vector refinement" was invented by Seethal Paluri (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 is provided. The method comprises the steps of: deriving a motion vector of a current block; deriving a refined motion vector regarding the current block by applying decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) to the motion vector; deriving prediction samples regarding the current block on the basi...