ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,146, issued on July 14, was assigned to OP Solutions LLC (Amherst, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for coding and decoding image data using general adversarial models" was invented by Hari Kalva (Boca Raton, Fla.), Borivoje Furht (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Velibor Adzic (Canton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder and decoder system employing a compression-decision generative adversarial model ("CDGAM") has an encoder with a compression network and a decoder with a task network. The compression network is a generator portion of a pretrained CDGAM and the task network is a discriminator portion of the pretrained CDGAM. The com...