ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,740, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Inter-prediction method and apparatus for 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 inter-prediction method according to the present invention com...