ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,232, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"High-level syntax for priority signaling in neural network compression" was invented by Goutham Rangu (Tampere, Finland), Hamed Rezazadegan Tavakoli (Espoo, Finland), Francesco Cricri (Tampere, Finland), Miska Matias Hannuksela (Tampere, Finland) and Emre Aksu (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for compressing a neural network are disclosed. An apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code c...