ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,802, issued on May 13, was assigned to SK TELECOM Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of restoration in sub-block units, and video decoding apparatus" was invented by Tae Young Na (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Hwan Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Se Hoon Son (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Il Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for reconstructing a current block in units of sub-blocks included in the current block. The method includes: decoding transform coefficients in a transform block of the current block, sub-block information indicating a division form of the su...