ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,694, issued on June 30, was assigned to KUNSHAN YUNYINGGU ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Kunshan, China).

"System and method for compressing image data in a display panel" was invented by Yongwen Jiang (Kunshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compressing image data in a display panel is provided. The method includes grouping a plurality of pixels of the display panel into a plurality of continuous blocks and selecting a pixel pattern for a current block from a plurality of pixel patterns. Each block includes a pixel array with M rows and N columns. The indexes are assigned to the pixel patterns. Each pixel pattern...