ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,416, issued on May 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data encoding method and related device for lossless compression using trained volume preserving flow model" was invented by Shifeng Zhang (Beijing), Chen Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Ning Kang (Hong Kong) and Zhenguo Li (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data encoding method includes obtaining to-be-encoded data; processing the to-be-encoded data by using a volume preserving flow model to obtain a hidden variable output, where the volume preserving flow model includes a target volume preserving flow layer, an operation corresponding to the t...