ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,025, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Transform-based image coding method, and apparatus therefor" was invented by Moonmo Koo (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Mehdi Salehifar (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present document comprises: a residual coding step for parsing residual information received in a residual coding level and arranging transform coefficients for a current block according to a predetermined scanning order; a step for deriving residual samples by ap...