ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,557, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method, apparatus, and storage medium using padding/trimming in compression neural network" was invented by Joo-Young Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Se-Yoon Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyoung-Jin Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong-Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Youn-Hee Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jong-Ho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae-Jin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin-Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding apparatus extracts features of an image by applying multiple padding...