ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,329, issued on April 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Syntax design method and apparatus for performing coding by using syntax" was invented by Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (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 apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: decoding, on the basis of a bitstream, an affine flag that indicates whether affine prediction is applicable to a current block and a sub-block TMVP flag that indicates whether a temporal motion vector predictor...