ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,008, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Video or image coding applying adaptive loop filter" was invented by Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method, according to the present disclosure may comprise: acquiring, from a bitstream, image information including adaptive loop filter (ALF) information including, alternative filter information for a chroma component of a current block, and residual information; generating reconstructed samples for the current block on the basis of the residual information; an...