ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,955, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amir More (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Data compression and decompression facilitated by machine learning" was invented by Amir More (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments for compressing data. A first encoding, a decoding, and an error prediction index are received from one or more artificial neural networks. The first encoding corresponds to a lossy compression of the data. The decoding corresponds to a decompression of the first encoding. The error prediction index indicates one or more locations of predicted error in the decoding. Based on the data and the...