ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,043, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Lossy compression with gaussian diffusion" was invented by Lucas Theis (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding data includes determining, by an encoder, a first data instance by corrupting the data with Gaussian noise. The method also includes determining, by the encoder, information representative of one or more conditional distributions. The method additionally includes determining, by the encoder, an index of a corrupted data instance of the sequence of progressively less corrupted data instances. The index corresponds with a conditi...