ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,732, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Image/video coding method and apparatus" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seetal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seubghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus, according to the present document, may comprise the steps of: parsing, from a bitstream, number information about the number of slices having heights specifically signaled within a tile of a current picture; on the basis of the number information, parsing, from the bitstream, height information ab...