ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,673, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for encoding and decoding data" was invented by Christian Gerhardt (Reutlingen, Germany) and Michael Bunse (Vaihingen/Enz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for encoding and decoding data. The encoding includes: receiving a datum representing a numerical value from a predefined maximum value range; selecting an encoding rule for the datum; encoding the numerical value of the datum based on the selected encoding rule by omitting all binary positions of the numerical value considered as a binary number that are of lower significance tha...