ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,708, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea), INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY (Goyang-si, South Korea) and INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" was invented by Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Gon Kim (Goyang-si, South Korea), Do Hyeon Park (Goyang-si, South Korea) and Yung Lyul Lee ...