ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,118, issued on July 14, was assigned to LX SEMICON Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and device for encoding/decoding image, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" was invented by Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method can be performed by an image decoding apparatus. The image decoding method can include obtaining image information including pred...