ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,876, issued on May 27, was assigned to SK TELECOM Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for encoding or decoding video" was invented by Sun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong-yeon Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Tae Young Na (Seoul, South Korea), Gyeong-taek Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jae-seob Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Se Hoon Son (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyo Song Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for decoding a video including determining a coding unit to be decoded by block partitioning, decoding prediction syntaxes for the coding unit, the prediction syntaxes including a s...