ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,149, issued on April 1, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"System and method for the compression of echolocation data" was invented by Karthik Subburaj (Bangalore, India) and Sandeep Rao (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compressing echolocation data is provided. The method includes dividing the echolocation data into a plurality of partitions, and selecting a first partition for processing. The method also includes combining echolocation data from the first partition with echolocation data within a second partition, and combining echolocation data from the first partition with echolocation ...