ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,566, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Parallel entropy coding" 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 described to encoded data into a bitstream and to decode data from a bitstream. The method is able to perform parallel encoding and decoding efficiently and avoids padding of substreams thus reducing the amount of bits within the bitstream. Portions of input data channels are multiplexed and encoded into substreams. Durin...