ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,627, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device using affine TMVP, and method for transmitting bit stream" was invented by Nae Ri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Hak Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeong Moon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding apparatus and method are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure may comprise deriving a motion shift of a current block using moti...