ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,028, issued on April 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for image decoding/encoding, and method of transmitting data for an image" was invented by Jungdong Seo (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present invention comprises the steps of: acquiring information on inter prediction of a target block through a bit stream; deriving motion information of the target block on the basis of the information on inter prediction; deriving a prediction sample by performing inter prediction...