ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,777, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video decoding device, operating method thereof, display device, and video system" was invented by Miyeon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding device includes a decoder including plural hardware blocks that perform decoding processing on a bitstream by pipeline units and plural pipeline memories disposed between the hardware blocks and that store unit data, obtained through processing performed by pipeline units by the hardware blocks, for each pipeline stage, and a memory that stores image data obtaine...