ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,579, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Data compression using conditional entropy models" was invented by David Charles Minnen (Mountain View, Calif.), Saurabh Singh (Mountain View, Calif.), Johannes Balle (San Francisco), Troy Chinen (Newark, Calif.), Sung Jin Hwang (Mountain View, Calif.), Nicholas Johnston (San Jose, Calif.) and George Dan Toderici (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for compressing and decompressing data. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing data using...