US Patent Issued to onXmaps on Jan. 20 for "Methods and systems for compressing digital elevation model data" (Montana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,807, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to onXmaps Inc. (Missoula, Mont.).

"Methods and systems for compressing digital elevation model data" was invented by Lance Fisher (Missoula, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for compressing map data. Provided here is a system for reducing network traffic by compressing map data, comprising: a data set receiver configured to obtain first two or more values associated with first two or more pixels; a prediction difference recorder configured to: (a) predict a next value associated with a next pixel based on the first two or more values, wherei...