ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,777, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device for signaling HRD parameters, and computer-readable recording medium in which bitstream is stored" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for signaling hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) related parameters, and a method of transmitting a bitstream. An image decoding method may comprise obtaining first information specifying the number of one or more hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) parameter syntax...