ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,226, issued on June 2, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and systems of training neural networks for lossy image or video encoding, transmission and decoding" was invented by Chris Finlay (London), Jonathan Rayner (London), Jan Xu (London), Christian Besenbruch (London), Arsalan Zafar (London), Sebastjan Cizel (London) and Vira Koshkina (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training one or more neural networks, the one or more neural networks being for use in lossy image or video encoding, transmission and decoding. The method comprises encoding an input image using a first neural ...