ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,609, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method for encoding/decoding image signal, and device for the same" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video signal decoding method according to the present disclosure includes partitioning a current picture into a plurality of tiles, decoding partitioning information representing a slice type, wherein the partitioning information represents whether a rectangular slice is applied, decoding width information and height information for a first slice, decoding tile index difference value inform...