ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,308, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video decoding method and apparatus, and video encoding method and apparatus for performing inter prediction according to affine model" was invented by Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Narae Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Anish Tamse (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method includes, determining a center motion vector of a current block by using a base motion vector of the current block based on affine model-based inter-pr...