ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,390, issued on May 20, was assigned to LX SEMICON Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a video using a motion compensation based on motion vector resolution information" was invented by Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Hyun Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for encod...