US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Aug. 25 for "Optimized compression mode selection for BC7 texture encoding" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,419, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.

"Optimized compression mode selection for BC7 texture encoding" was invented by Thomas Madams (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for training a machine learning (ML) model is learn compression errors for various compression modes of BC7 given an input set of features that depend on per-channel pixel value ranges in a BC7 block."

The patent was filed on July 7, 2023, under Application No. 18/348,674.

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