US Patent Issued to Synaptics on Oct. 27 for "Progressive coding for autoencoders" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,199, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Progressive coding for autoencoders" was invented by Isaac R. Edwards (London) and Scott Liam Ransom (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for image encoding. The present implementations more specifically relate to progressive encoding techniques for autoencoders. In some aspects, an image encoder may encode an image as a tensor of latent attributes having multiple channels based on one or more first layers of a neural network model, and recombine the tensor channels, in a prioritized o...