ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,838, issued on April 14, was assigned to CLOUDINARY LTD. (Petah Tikva, Israel).

"System, device, and method for improved image encoding that non-iteratively targets and achieves a visual-quality threshold and a compression efficiency threshold" was invented by Amnon Cohen-Tidhar (Kadima-Zoran, Israel), Elad Ben Baruck (Kiryat Gat, Israel), Yaron Vaxman (Ganei Tikva, Israel), Jon Philippe D. Sneyers (Asse, Belgium) and Tal Lev-Ami (Modiin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, device, and method for improved image encoding that non-iteratively targets and achieves a visual-quality threshold and a compression efficiency thresh...