ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,101, issued on July 29, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"Distributed system and method for adaptive neural network-based data compression" was invented by Zhu Li (Overland Park, Kan.), Paras Maharjan (Kansas City, Mo.) and Brian Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for distributed data compression leverages edge and central computing devices to optimize efficiency and quality. The system includes a lightweight compression subsystem at the edge device that preprocesses and partially compresses input data before transmitting it to a central computing device. The central compress...