ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,475, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Compression and decompression of multi-dimensional data" was invented by John Michael Snyder (Redmond, Wash.), Nikunj Raghuvanshi (Redmond, Wash.) and Michael G. Chemistruck (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to the compressing and/or decompressing of spatial data. A block of spatial data can be compressed by iteratively performing compression iterations on portions of the block and splitting the portions into further portions until compression is completed. The compressed data can include first encoded valu...