ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,904, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Enhanced data compression" was invented by Lynn Valerie Keiser (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dominique Meroux (Fair Oaks, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of sets of sample data points from a vehicle sensor are determined, each set including a predetermined number of consecutive sample data points. Respective differences between pairs of consecutive sample data points in each set are determined. The differences are stored in respective subspaces of one of a plurality of memory spaces of the memory, each memory space in the plurality of ...