ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,065, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus with sub-block intra prediction" was invented by Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Hyun Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for performing i...