ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,090, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Methods, apparatuses, computer programs and computer-readable media for scalable image coding" was invented by Robert Johnson (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For each image in a set of images, a representation of the image at a first level of quality is derived using a first representation of the image at a second, higher level of quality and is output for processing by a decoder. Configuration data is output for processing by the decoder to enable the decoder to detect whether or not the first representation of a given image in the set of images is t...