ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,689, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video encoding method and device, and video decoding method and device" was invented by Kiho Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woongil Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Narae Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Anish Tamse (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image decoding method including: obtaining, from a bitstream, a syntax element regarding multiple transform selecti...