ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,329, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to LX Semicon Co. Ltd. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method, apparatus, and recording medium for storing bitstream" was invented by Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Hyun Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, 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 an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The ima...