ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,340, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Encoding method and apparatus therefor, and decoding method and apparatus therefor" was invented by Narae Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo 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 is a video decoding method including: obtaining, from a bitstream, intra prediction mode information indicati...