ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,311, issued on April 7, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method for processing image on basis of inter-prediction mode and apparatus therefor" was invented by Jaeho Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method for decoding a video signal and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for decoding an image based on an inter-prediction mode may include: configuring a merge candidate list by using motion information of a spatial candidate and a temporal candidate adjacent to a current block; parsing a first syntax element indicating a particular candidate applied to inter-predi...