ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,828, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China) and Peking University (Beijing).

"Encoding and decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Jiaying Liu (Beijing), Dezhao Wang (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing), Tiansheng Guo (Beijing), Ze Cui (Beijing) and Yunying Ge (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method includes: first obtaining to-be-encoded data, and then inputting the to-be-encoded data into a first encoding network to obtain a target parameter; then constructing a second encoding network based on the target parameter; next inputting the to-be-encoded data into the second ...