ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,669, issued on March 18, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods and devices for vector segmentation for coding" was invented by Tomas Jansson Toftgard (Uppsala, Sweden), Volodya Grancharov (Solna, Sweden) and Jonas Svedberg (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for partitioning of input vectors for coding is presented. The method comprises obtaining of an input vector. The input vector is segmented, in a non-recursive manner, into an integer number, NSEG, of input vector segments. A representation of a respective relative energy difference between parts of the input vector on ea...