ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,566, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Convolution and transformer based compressive sensing" was invented by Sam Tak Wu Kwong (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Dongjie Ye (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Zhangkai Ni (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adaptive reconstruction of a compressively sensed data. The method contains the steps of receiving sensed data; conducting an initial reconstruction to the sensed data to obtain a plurality of first reconstruction patches; by a reconstruction module, conducting a progressive reconstruction to the sensed data to obtain a plu...