ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,956, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Method for coding transform coefficient and device therefor" was invented by Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by which a decoding device decodes an image, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream including residual information; deriving a quantized transform coefficient for a current block on the basis of the residual informati...