ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,440, issued on June 10, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image on basis of CPI SEI message, and recording medium having bitstream stored therein" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeong Moon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. The image encoding method comprises deriving information for a composite picture generated from one or more source pictures and generating a bitstream by encoding a singl...