ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,313, issued on July 15, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"In-loop filtering method and apparatus for same" was invented by Seung Wook Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Hyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Sun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Joon Young Park (Seoul, South Korea), Young Hee Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Byeong Moon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Yong Joon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, an image-encoding method comprises the following steps: receiving image information; generating a restored block for the current block based on the image information;...