ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,501, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huuuuge Global Ltd. (Larnaca, Cyprus).

"Encoding and decoding with image atlas file" was invented by Bartosz Taudul (Warsaw, Poland), Wojciech Gasek (Warsaw, Poland) and Krzysztof Kondrak (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and encoder for encoding target images(s) into an image atlas file. Image elements present in the target images are identified. A set of unique image elements is created including each unique image element identified in the one or more target images and only one instance of each non-unique image element identified in the one or more target images as a cor...