ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,913, issued on July 28, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Systems and methods for compression of feature data using joint coding in coding of multi-dimensional data" was invented by Kiran Mukesh Misra (Vancouver, Wash.), Tianying Ji (Vancouver, Wash.), Christopher Andrew Segall (Vancouver, Wash.) and Frank Bossen (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure discloses a method of compressing feature data corresponding to video data. The method comprising: generating feature data including a number of channels corresponding to a scale for each of N pictures included in video data, concatenating the ge...