US Patent Issued to GL IP PROTECT on March 17 for "Encoder, decoder and method employing palette compression" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,097, issued on March 17, was assigned to GL IP PROTECT LLC (Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.).

"Encoder, decoder and method employing palette compression" was invented by Ossi Kalevo (Akaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding input data to generate corresponding encoded data is provided. The method includes encoding the input data into a plurality of symbols in the encoded data, wherein the plurality of symbols represent data as defined by at least one palette included in the encoded data. The method further includes compressing data representative of the at least one palette into compressed palette data in a lossless...