ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,862, issued on March 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Transform-based image coding method and device 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 the steps of: deriving residual samples by applying at least one among LFNST or MTS to a transform coefficient; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples, wherein the LFNST is carried out on the basis of a L...