ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,100, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for processing video signal on basis of inter prediction" was invented by Jane Zhao (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure discloses a method for processing a video signal and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the method of processing a video signal based on an inter prediction, comprising: configuring a merge list based on a neighboring block of a current block; adding a history based merge candidate included in a history based merge candidate list to the merge list...