US Patent Issued to BAREWAYS on Dec. 30 for "Method and system for encoding image data representing a geographical line" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,318, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BAREWAYS GMBH (Lubeck, Germany).

"Method and system for encoding image data representing a geographical line" was invented by Sascha Klement (Lubeck, Germany), Florian Hartmann (Lubeck, Germany) and Stefan Matlage (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of encoding image data representing a geographical line, GL, or its surroundings, and a data processing system being configured to perform the encoding. The method comprises applying a data compression process to reduce the spatial resolution of a given image represented by the image data. Specifically, ...