ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,087, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"High-performance and low-latency implementation of a wavelet-based image compression scheme" was invented by Juraj Obert (Carlsbad, Calif.), Aravind Srinivasa Raghavan (San Diego), Rex Perkins (Medway, Mass.), Mark Dale Haack (Ormond Beach, Fla.), Janardhan Haryadi Ramesh (San Diego) and Kevin Hawkins (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for a high-performance and low-latency implementation of a wavelet-based image compression scheme. A proces...