US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 1 for "Rate-distortion-optimization (RDO) via bit-rate reduction" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,311, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.

"Rate-distortion-optimization (RDO) via bit-rate reduction" was invented by Thomas Madams (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for storing BC7 texture blocks on-disk with lower precision index data and transcoding back to the GPU-native BC7 format when the data is loaded. The transcode back to standard BC7 is lossless."

The patent was filed on Aug. 10, 2023, under Application No. 18/448,137.

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