ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,085, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Semantic compression for compute offloading" was invented by Sabine Roessel (Munich), Christian Drewes (Germering, Germany), Matthias Sauer (San Jose, Calif.), Danila Zaev (Munich), Bernhard Raaf (Neuried, Germany), Bernd Wurth (Landsberg am Lech, Germany) and Max Dmitrichenko (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for semantic encoding by a user equipment (UE) are configured for determining an expected power consumption for encoding video data that includes semantic features, the semantic features representing a meaning of information repres...