ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,293, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Valeo Comfort and Driving Assistance (France).

"Systems and methods for data compression" was invented by Anushalakshmi Manila (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jaime Almeida (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes assigning a first label to pixels associated with a first portion of at least one image, assigning a second label to pixels associated with a second portion of the at least one image, and assigning a third label to pixels not assigned the first label or the second label. The method also includes identifying, for each segment on a first axis associated with the at le...