ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,064, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus applying a merge mode with motion vector difference to combined an inter/intra prediction mode or a geometric partitioning mode" was invented by Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jin Heo (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding a video are provided. A method for decoding a video according to the present disclosure includes determining whether to apply a combined inter/intra prediction (CIIP) mode or ...