ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,597, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video encoder, video encoding method, and video decoder" was invented by Seung Hoon Jee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Paul Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Hun Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jung Yeop Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Do Kwan Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jun Hee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dong Won Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jong Seong Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chan Sol Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder is provided. The video encoder according to an example embodiment includes: a dif...