ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,699, issued on March 17, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Progressive image compression and syncing" was invented by Junda Wu (Long Island City, N.Y.), Haoliang Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tong Yu (Fremont, Calif.), Stefano Petrangeli (San Francisco), Gang Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Viswanathan Swaminathan (Saratoga, Calif.), Sungchul Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Handong Zhao (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium include obtaining image data and computing a prediction residue value for a pixel of the image data using a predic...