US Patent Issued to SHADOW on April 15 for "Method for encoding a digital image in order to compress same" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,737, issued on April 15, was assigned to SHADOW (Paris).

"Method for encoding a digital image in order to compress same" was invented by Amaury Darsch (Lorient, France) and Lucas Clarte (Gagny, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method of encoding a digital image in order to compress same, the digital image being defined as a point cloud associating a set of N pixels, designated as vertices, to a scalar intensity value. The method aims at establishing triangulation vertices of the digital image and implements the principles of algorithmic topology."

The patent was filed on Dec. 16, 2020, under Applicati...