ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,294, issued on July 15, was assigned to HAINING ESWIN COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Jiaxing, China) and Beijing ESWIN Computing Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Image compression apparatus, image compression method, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Duoduo Zhang (Jiaxing, China), Benchuan Hu (Jiaxing, China), Huawen Ding (Jiaxing, China) and Bo Zhao (Jiaxing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an image compression apparatus, an image compression method. The apparatus comprises: an image division module configured to divide a target image into one or more macro b...