ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,150, issued on July 1, was assigned to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"System and method for scene graph lossless compression by context-based graph convolution" was invented by Weiyao Lin (Shanghai), Yufeng Zhang (Shanghai) and Huabin Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for scene graph lossless compression based on context-based graph convolution comprises a prior encoding module, a first prior decoding module, a data encoding module located at the compressor side, a second prior decoding module, and a data decoding module located at the decompressor side; it extracts prior information from the...