ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,458, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Video compression techniques for reliable transmission" was invented by Benjemin Thomas Waine (Cheshunt, Great Britain), Amy Rose (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Andrew James Woodard (Buckinghamshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented for reliable transmission of time-sensitive data. In particular, various embodiments provide for the generation of compressed sequential data, where individual instances of a sequence represent differentials from prior instances in that sequence. In order to reduce an amount of data that nee...