ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,168, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method for coding image information including TSRC available flag, and device therefor" was invented by Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by which a decoding device decodes an image, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: acquiring prediction-related information about the current block; acquiring residual informatio...