US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Handling trailing bits in arithmetic encoding and decoding" (German, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,904, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Handling trailing bits in arithmetic encoding and decoding" was invented by Maxim Borisovitch Sychev (Moscow), Andrey Soroka (Munich), Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich) and Sergey Yurievich Ikonin (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are provided to encode data into a bitstream and to decode data from a bitstream. According to the method, the length of the bitstream can be reduced by including only the relevant significant bits within the trailing bits of the encoding process. The amount of these leading trailing bits is...