ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,273, issued on March 24, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Lossless removal of redundant control points or segments" was invented by Alec Stefan Jacobson (Toronto) and Siqi Wang (Jersey City, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various disclosed embodiments are directed to the lossless removal of redundant control points and/or segments based on chain-to-chain and/or segment-to-segment distance computations. Additionally or alternatively, such removal may be based on identifying all possible lossless removal operations to ensure that the smallest possible zero-error (or near zero-error) representation of a given image....