ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,716, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Coding of information about transform kernel set" was invented by Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Moonmo Koo (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (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 includes: acquiring a multiple transform selection (MTS) index and residual information from a bitstream; deriving transform coefficients for the current block on the basis of the residual information; and generating residual samples of the current block on the basis of the MTS index and the transfo...