ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,523, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for encoding/decoding image and device thereof" was invented by Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Seungwook Park (Seoul, South Korea), Yongjoon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea), Chulkeun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jungsun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Byeongmoon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Joonyoung Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for image decoding, according to the present invention, includes the following steps: receiving image information including a ...