ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,207, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method for encoding and decoding motion information by means of neighboring motion information" was invented by Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kiho Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woongil Choi (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, performed by a decoding apparatus, of decoding motion information, including: obtaining change information indicating whether to change motion information of ...