ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,657, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Guaranteed data compression" was invented by Ilaria Martinelli (Watford, Great Britain), Jeff Bond (Barry, Great Britain), Simon Fenney (St. Albans, Great Britain), Peter Malcolm Lacey (Bukinghamshire, Great Britain) and Gregory Clark (Hemel Hempstead, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of converting 10-bit pixel data (e.g. 10:10:10:2 data) into 8-bit pixel data involves converting the 10-bit values to 7-bits or 8-bits and generating error values for each of the converted values. Two of the 8-bit output channels...