ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,052, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" was invented by Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method and device according to the present disclosure may determine a transform type for inverse transform of a current block from one or more MTS candidates available to the current block, and perform inverse transform on transform coefficients of the current block on the basis of the determined transform type, so as to acquire residual ...