ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,069, issued on June 23, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for video encoding/decoding using IBC mode, and method for transmitting bitstream" was invented by Hyeong Moon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method is disclosed. The image decoding method includes determining a prediction mode of a current block based on prediction mode information of the current block obtained from a bitstream, obtaining a transform coefficient block of the current block from the bitstream, dequantizing the transform coefficient to generate a dequantized transform coeffici...