ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,121, issued on April 29, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC (Moraga, Calif.).

"Adaptive neural upsampling system for decoding lossy compressed data streams" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.), Grant Fickes (Columbia, S.C.), Charles Yeomans (Orinda, Calif.) and Brian Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for enhancing lossy compressed data. The system receives a compressed data stream, decompresses it, and enhances the decompressed data using adaptive neural network models. Key features include data characteristic analysis, dynamic model selection from multiple specialized neura...