ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,816, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video decoding method and apparatus using multi-core transform, and video encoding method and apparatus using multi-core transform" was invented by Ki-ho Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Min-soo Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Elena Alshina (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for performing transformation and inverse transformation on a current block by using multi-core transform kernels in video encoding and decoding processes. A video decoding method may include obtaining, from a bitstream, multi-core transfo...