ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,409, issued on March 11, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Data compression implementation" was invented by Patrick Riehl (Lynnfield, Mass.), Tony J. Akl (Bedford, Mass.), Venugopal Gopinathan (Boston) and Hyung Sung Yoon (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed herein examples of systems and methods for compressing a signal. Samples of the signal can be segmented and the samples within each of the segments can be averaged to produce a value that can represent the samples within the segment. The number of samples to average in each segment may be determined based on an error thresho...