ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,300, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for video decoding and video encoding using a plurality of candidate prediction motion vectors" was invented by Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ilkoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kwangpyo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a video decoding method and apparatus for obtaining, from a bitstream, information about a first motion vector of a current block, determining, based on the information about the first motion vector, the first motion vec...