ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,382, issued on June 9, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method includes generating a prediction information merge list for a current block, selecting one of prediction information merge candidates included in the prediction information merge list on the basis of index information, and obtaining a prediction block for the current block on the basis of prediction information on the selected prediction information merge cand...