ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,685, issued on July 29, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Image coding method based on motion vector and apparatus therefor" was invented by Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure includes obtaining motion prediction information from bitstream, generating an affine MVP candidate list including affine MVP candidates for a current block, deriving CPMVPs for respective CPs of the current block based on one of the affine MVP candidates inclu...