ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,752, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image or video coding on basis of information related to picture output" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of the present document, slices included in a current picture are decoded, a picture output flag for the current picture is derived after decoding of all the slices in the current picture is completed, and an output for the current picture may be determined on the basis of the picture output flag. The ...