US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Data compression and storage" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,067, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Data compression and storage" was invented by Simon Fenney (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Greg Clark (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Alan Vines (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data compression method comprises encoding groups of data items by generating, for each group, header data comprising h-bits and a plurality of body portions each comprising b-bits and each body portion corresponding to a data item in the group. The value of h may be fixed for all groups and the value of b is fixed within a...