ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,743, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"Medical imaging data compression utilizing codebooks" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.) and Charles Yeomans (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compression of medical imaging data using codebooks and entropy encoding. Medical imaging data such as tomosynthesis imagery data may be compressed using codewords based on frequency analysis. In an implementation sequential registration technique may be applied to the medical imaging data to create a plurality transformation matrices. The plurality of transformation matrices may be com...