US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Sept. 8 for "Method and data processing system for lossy image or video encoding, transmission and decoding" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,298, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and data processing system for lossy image or video encoding, transmission and decoding" was invented by Arsalan Zafar (London), Jan Xu (London), Christian Besenbruch (London), Bilal Abbasi (London), Aleksandar Cherganski (London), Chris Finlay (London) and Christian Etmann (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for lossy image and video encoding, transmission and decoding, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an input image at a first computer system; encoding the input image using a first trained neural network to pro...