US Patent Issued to Sony on March 24 for "Data encoding and decoding" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,649, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sony Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data encoding and decoding" was invented by Karl James Sharman (East Ilsley, Great Britain) and Magali Kimlee Miri Philippe (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data encoding method comprises: encoding an ordered array of data values as data representing a data value magnitude and data representing a data value sign; predicting, for a set of data values comprising at least some of the data values, the respective data value sign from a property of one or more other data values in the ordered array; and encoding the data value sign for the set of dat...