ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,640, issued on May 6, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for distributed edge-cloud homomorphic compression using adaptive neural networks" was invented by Brian Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed system and method for compressing and restoring data across edge computing devices and cloud infrastructure is disclosed. The system preprocesses raw data at edge computing devices, compresses the data into latent space vectors using distributed encoders within a variational autoencoder spanning edge and cloud components, decompresses the vectors using decoders,...