ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,748, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adaptive encoding of image regions for machine learning and AI applications" was invented by Swapnil Rathi (Maharashtra, India), Prasad Prakash Nikam (Maharashtra, India), Chandrahas Jagadish Ramalad (San Jose, Calif.), Bhushan Rupde (Maharashtra, India), Prashant Gaikwad (Cupertino, Calif.) and Kaustubh Purandare (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, properties may be determined for image regions, where the image regions are indicated by output data generated using MLMs. An encoder may use the properties to generate encoded i...