ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,801, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device using filtering, and method for transmitting bitstream" was invented by Hyeong Moon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus may comprise deriving a reconstructed block for a current block, deriving a target boundary for the reconstructed block, determining a filter length of a deblocking filter to be applied for the target boundary, and applying the deblocking filter for...