ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,011, issued on April 14, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Video signal encoding/decoding method, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" was invented by Sung Won Lim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: when a random access: is performed, sequentially decoding pictures belonging to a random access group; and outputting, as a reconstructed picture, a last picture from among the pictures belonging to the random access group."

The patent was filed on Jan. 4, 2023, under Application No. 18/726,585.

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