ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,105, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding motion vector difference using sequence MMVD information" was invented by Seungsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a video decoding method including: obtaining, from a sequence parameter set, sequence merge mode with motion vector difference (sequence MMVD) information indicating whether an MMVD mode is applicable in a current sequence; when the MMVD mode is applicable according to the sequence MMVD information, ...