ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,749, issued on July 21, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).
"Method and system for efficient transmission of monochrome video data, in particular for laser beam scanning applications" was invented by Davide Terzi (Zanica, Italy), Guy Amor (Gan-Yavne, Israel), Stefano Brovelli (Invorio, Italy), Lorenzo De Biasi (Prata di Pordenone, Italy) and Tomer Shkalim (Kfar Saba, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmission of monochrome video data of a monochromatic image, wherein three different source monochromatic pixels are encoded by a transmitting device into one compressed three-color pixel; ...