US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on June 24 for "Systems and methods for weighted quantization" (New York, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,910, issued on June 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for weighted quantization" was invented by Ruiqi Guo (Elmhurst, N.Y.), David Simcha (Jersey City, N.J.), Quan Geng (Jersey City, N.J.), Felix Chern (New York), Sanjiv Kumar (Jericho, N.Y.) and Xiang Wu (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of quantizing a database with respect to a novel loss or quantization error function which applies a weight to an error measurement of quantized elements respectively corresponding to the datapoints in the database. The weig...