ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,643, issued on March 24, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored for block division at picture boundary" was invented by Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this specification, a image decoding method is disclosed. The image decoding method of the present invention comprises, decoding block partition informat...