ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,733, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"DMVR-based inter-prediction method and device" was invented by Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method comprises the steps of: determining whether or not an application condition of decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) for applying motion vector refinement for a current block is satisfied; deriving a minimum sum of absolute differences (SAD) on the basis of L0 and L1 motion vectors of the current block if the application condition of the DMVR is satisfied; derivin...