ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,047, issued on March 31, was assigned to ELECTRONICS and TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea), INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA COOPERATION GROUP OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea) and INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY (Goyang-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for image encoding and decoding using temporal motion information" was invented by Sung-Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung-Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyunsuk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin-Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha-Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dong-San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui-Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yung-Lyul Lee (Seoul, South Kor...