ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,153, issued on July 14, was assigned to WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for processing video signal by using adaptive color space transform" was invented by Jaehong Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Juhyung Son (Uiwang-si, South Korea), Dongcheol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Geonjung Ko (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinsam Kwak (Uiwang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a video signal, the method comprising: acquiring a transform skip active flag indicating whether a transform skip flag can exist in a transform unit syntax, the transform skip flag...