ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,974, issued on July 7, was assigned to WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Video signal processing method and apparatus therefor" was invented by Kyungyong Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Dongcheol Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Juhyung Son (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jinsam Kwak (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video signal decoding apparatus comprises a processor, wherein the processor: obtains first motion information for the current block; obtains second motion information for the current block; configures a first template set including adjacent blocks of the ...