ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,781, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus based on subpicture information aligned between layers, and recording medium storing bitstream" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method comprises obtaining subpicture information from a bitstream, deriving one or more subpictures in a current picture based on the subpicture information, and decoding a cur...