US Patent Issued to THALES on March 31 for "Methods for the compression and decompression of a digital terrain model file; associated compressed and decompressed files and associated computer program product" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,003, issued on March 31, was assigned to THALES (Meudon, France).

"Methods for the compression and decompression of a digital terrain model file; associated compressed and decompressed files and associated computer program product" was invented by Ronan Yann Demoment (Toulouse, France), Stephane Jean-Claude Fleury (Toulouse Cedex, France) and Angelique Segretin (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for compressing a digital terrain model file including a tile including a matrix of cells, each cell including an elevation value for a geographical point of the terrain, by representing the tile in the form of an initia...