ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,883, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Single channel encoding into a multi-channel container followed by image compression" was invented by Arkady Ten (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coding methods and apparatus for packing single-channel data into a multi-channel container, e.g., an MP4, TIFF, or JPEG container, to at least achieve good utilization of the container's data capacity. In some examples, a coding method comprises: converting a plurality of scalar values of a received data stream into a corresponding plurality of n-dimensional values, the converting ...