ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,620, issued on June 2, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method, method for transmitting bitstream, and recording medium for storing bitstream" was invented by Hendry Tan (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Hak Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeong Moon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method, a method of transmitting a bitstream and a recording medium storing a bitstream are provided. The image decoding method may comprise receiving a neural-network post-filter (NNPF) related s...