ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,821, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rosedale Dynamics LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Transform coefficient coding method and device therefor" was invented by Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin Heo (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 a step of receiving a bitstream containing residual information, and a step of deriving a quantized transform coefficient for a current block on the basis of the residual information cont...