ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,256, issued on March 24, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Data processing method and data processing system" was invented by Akifumi Suzuki (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Akutsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a data processing method executed by a data processing system that performs compression and/or decompression of image data, a tensor shape representing compression target data is obtained, compression processing is performed using data having an input shape fixed for each shape of the compression target data as input, and an input shape fixed compressor for outputting compressed data is generated. Then, t...