ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,123, issued on July 14, was assigned to Quasistatics Inc. (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Method and system for energy-efficient approximate digital JPEG and MJPEG-compression" was invented by Shreyas Sen (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Archisman Ghosh (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for energy-efficient approximate digital JPEG and MJPEG-compression. The system includes a controller unit to control a processing loop for processing image blocks based on a comparison of a current image block to a previous image block. The system includes a quantization unit configured to quantize the frequency domain repre...