ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,044, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video decoding method and apparatus for obtaining quantization parameter, and video encoding method and apparatus for transmitting quantization parameter" was invented by Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kiho Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chanyul Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yumi Sohn (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a video decoding method including: obtaining, from a picture parameter set, a quantization parameter (QP) initial va...