ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,626, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Partial decompression of compressed media for input to a generative artificial intelligence model" was invented by Ziyad A. Ibrahim (Redmond, Wash.) and Sudhakar V. Prabhu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system performs operations to prepare input to a generative artificial intelligence ("AI") model. The system receives compressed data for media, which has been compressed according to a media compression format to produce the compressed data. The system partially decompresses the compressed data (e.g., performing pa...