ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,012, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image or video coding based on signaling of quantization parameter offset-related information" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of the present document, chroma quantization parameter offset-related information may be signaled via a palette coding syntax, and index information about a chroma quantization parameter offset list may be efficiently parsed/signaled on the basis of information about the number of ...