ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,424, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to XRIS Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method for encoding/decoding image signal and device therefor" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a video, the method include: generating a merge candidate list for a current block, the merge candidate list being generated by adding at least one of a spatial merge candidate and a temporal merge candidate thereto; in response to a determination that a number of merge candidates included in the merge candidate list is less than a threshold value, updating the merge candidate list by add...