ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,650, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and device therefor" 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, comprises the steps of: obtaining image information through a bitstream; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the image information."

The patent was filed on June 5, 2024, under Application No. 18/734,711.

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