ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,055, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Systems and methods for encoding a deep neural network" was invented by Fabien Racape (San Francisco), Shahab Hamidi-Rad (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Swayambhoo Jain (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for compression including codebook-based quantization of a data set and corresponding decompression method, signal; bitstream, and encoder and/or decoder device."

The patent was filed on Jan. 22, 2021, under Application No. 17/794,117.

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