ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,710, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Image decoding method using chroma quantization parameter table, and device therefor" was invented by Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding device, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: obtaining a flag indicating whether one chroma quantization parameter table is applied to chroma components; obtaining chroma quantization parameter data on the basis of the flag; deriving the chroma quanti...