ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,412, issued on March 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for processing high level syntax in image/video coding system" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: acquiring general constraint information from a bitstream; parsing, from the bitstream, a flag indicating whether or not the general constraint information incl...