ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,192, issued on July 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data compression apparatus, data decompression apparatus, data compression system, control circuit, storage medium, data compression method, and data decompression method" was invented by Yuji Akiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data compression apparatus includes a receiver that outputs sampling sequences corresponding to signals obtained by adding different delay times to different signals obtained by branching a target signal into a plurality of lines, and sampling the signals at a sampling rate less than the Nyquist rate, and an encoder that c...