ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,031, issued on March 31, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method, device, and recording medium having bitstream stored therein" was invented by Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwang Hoon Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Tae Hyun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dae Young Lee (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent &...