ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,483, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"AI GAN enabled media compression for optimized resource utilization" was invented by Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.), John M. Ganci Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Atul Mene (Morrisville, N.C.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for compressing media utilizing a generative adversarial network (GAN) is provided. The embodiment may include receiving one or more media assets and historical data from a knowledge corpus in accordance with an identified usage context. The embodiment may also include identifying ...