ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,629, issued on June 30, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Devices and computer implemented methods for encoding and decoding data" was invented by Thomas Andy Keller (Amsterdam), Anna Khoreva (Stuttgart, Germany) and Max Welling (Bussum, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of encoding data. The method includes providing a first set of parameters that represent at least a part of the data, determining for parameters in the first set of parameters a weighted first sum depending on the parameters that is positive, providing a first parameter that represents at least a part of t...