ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,825, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Digitalinsights Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for video coding using various block partitioning structures" was invented by Yong Jo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Seok Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Yongin, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Yongin, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video coding uses various block partitioning structures. A method performed by a video decoding apparatus includes decoding, from a bitstream, a width and a height of the current block, and a split flag indicatin...