ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,042, issued on April 21, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Encoding method and decoding method, and device using same" was invented by Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwang Hoon Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kyung Yong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Woong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method and decoding method, and a devic...