ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,027, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatuses for encoding and decoding image, and methods for encoding and decoding image thereby" was invented by Woongil 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), Narae 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: "An image decoding method may include: obtaining, from a sequence parameter set of a bitstream, information...