ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,075, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and Intellectual Discovery Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Intra prediction mode encoding/decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Woong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Gon Kim (Goyang-si, South Korea), Sang Yong Lee (Goyang-si, South Korea) and Hae Chul Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intra prediction mode encoding and decoding method...