ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,678, issued on July 29, was assigned to Alibaba Damo (Hangzhou) Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Methods and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for pre-analysis based resampling compression for machine vision" was invented by Shurun Wang (Beijing), Zhao Wang (Beijing), Yan Ye (San Diego) and Shiqi Wang (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image data encoding method is provided. The image data encoding method includes receiving an input image and a quantization parameter (QP); performing pre-analysis of the input image based on the QP to obtain input image data for machine version; determining at least one ...