ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,843, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a video decoding method and apparatus which, during video encoding and decoding processes, determine whether ...