ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,106, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and device therefor" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding an image by a decoding device, according to the present disclosure, can signal picture partitioning related information on the basis of a flag indicating whether sub-picture information exists and a flag indicating whether subpictures each include a single slice."

The patent was filed on Nov. 11, 2024, under Application No. 18/943,...