ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,755, issued on July 21, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for a low-power lossless image compression using a spiking neural network" was invented by Sounak Dey (Kolkata, India), Chetan Sudhakar Kadway (Kolkata, India), Arijit Mukherjee (Kolkata, India), Arpan Pal (Kolkata, India), Sayan Kahali (Kolkata, India) and Manan Suri (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to reducing earth-bound image volume with an efficient lossless compression technique. The embodiment thus provides a method and system for reducing earth-bound image volume based on a Spik...