ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,720, issued on March 31, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Guaranteed data compression" was invented by Simon Fenney (St Albans, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of compressing data is described in which the compressed data is generated by either or both of a primary compression unit or a reserve compression unit in order that a target compression threshold is satisfied. If a compressed data block generated by the primary compression unit satisfies the compression threshold, that block is output. However, if the compressed data block generated by the primary compressi...