ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,604, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and systems for source coding using a neural network" was invented by Adam Christian Cavatassi (Mississauga, Canada), Yiqun Ge (Kanata, Canada) and Harsh Aurora (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for feature-based communications is provided that includes a probabilistic encoder and a transmitter. The probabilistic encoder is configured to encode source information into a set of probability distributions over a latent space. Each probability distribution represents one or more aspects of a subject of the source informat...