ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,823, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method for coding chroma quantization parameter data, and device for same" was invented by Seethal Paluri (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: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document is characterized by including the steps of acquiring chroma quantization parameter data of at least one chroma quantization parameter (QP) mapping table for chroma components; deriving the chroma QP mapping table on the basis o...