ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,075, issued on June 23, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Video encoding/decoding method and device using BDPCM, and method for transmitting bitstream" was invented by Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure may include parsing, from a bitstream, first information specifying whether block difference pulse code modulation (BDPCM) applies to...