US Patent Issued to Arm on July 8 for "Bit plane encoding of data arrays" (British, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,994, issued on July 8, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Bit plane encoding of data arrays" was invented by Dominic Hugo Symes (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Sven Ola Johannes Hugosson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of encoding an array of data elements comprising transforming the array from the spatial to the frequency domain, representing the frequency domain coefficients as a plurality of bit plane arrays, and encoding the set of frequency domain coefficients as a data packet having a fixed size by encoding the bit plane arrays in a bit plane sequence working from the b...