ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,707, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for processing a video signal" was invented by Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Jungsun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seungwook Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jaewon Sung (Seoul, South Korea), Byeongmoon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea), Joonyoung Park (Seoul, South Korea), Yongjoon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Younghee Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a video signal. According to the present invention, a plurality of reference units for ima...