ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,006, issued on April 14, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Compression image containers for compressing images" was invented by Anton Krug (Carlow, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for compressing images using compression image containers. Many user devices, such as smart phones, incorporate cameras that be utilized by users to capture photos. The photos can be either locally stored on a user device or uploaded to cloud storage. Managing the storage of a vast amount of photos is cumbersome and expensive where trillions of photos could be stored within the cloud storage. The techniques pro...