ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,168, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for edge based multi-modal homomorphic compression" was invented by Brian Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for compressing and restoring multi-modal data utilizing a variational autoencoder to enable homomorphic compression techniques is disclosed. Multi-modal input data, comprising at least two different data types, is compressed into a unified latent space using an encoder network of a multi-modal variational autoencoder. Homomorphic operations are performed on compressed data in the ...