ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,818, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for video coding using derivation of intra prediction mode" was invented by Joo Hyung Byeon (Seoul, South Korea), Sea Nae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Gyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for video coding using derivation of intra prediction modes are disclosed. The video coding method and the video coding apparatus ...