ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,106, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding motion information by using neighboring motion information" was invented by Seungsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kiho Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Narae Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woongil Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Anish Tamse (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding motion information may include: obtaining, from a bitstream, change inform...