ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,498, issued on March 3, was assigned to Wyss Center for Bio and Neuro Engineering (Geneva).

"Image compression and analysis" was invented by Jules Rene Raymond Scholler (Saint-Cergues, France), Joel Axel Christopher Jonsson (Dresden, Germany), Bevan Leslie Cheeseman (Oxford, Great Britain), Ivo Fabian Sbalzarini (Dresden, Germany) and Christophe M. Lamy (Renens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An efficient image analysis, processing, and handling based on adaptive particle representation (APR) for processing large scale color image datasets is disclosed. Analyzing large biological mass or tissue samples is achieved at 100+...