ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,721, issued on July 29, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device using maximum transform size restriction of chroma component encoding block, and method for transmitting bitstream" was invented by Ling Li (Seoul, South Korea) and Jung Hak Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus may include determining a prediction mode of a current block, generating a prediction block of the current block based on intra block copy (IBC) prediction mod...