ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,011, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method, apparatus and method for transmitting bitstream using maximum transform size setting of chroma block" 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 obtaining a current block by splitting an image, determining a prediction mode of the current block, generating an intra prediction block of the current block, based on ...