ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,725, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Compressed chip to chip transmission" was invented by Jonathan Andrew Lucas (Frisco, Texas), Jeffrey Matthew Kempf (Dallas) and Jeffrey Scott Farris (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a method includes serializing, via a processor, image data for a first image to form serialized data mapped to RBG pixels of a second image, the image data in a format other than a RGB pixel format. The method also includes transmitting, by the processor, the serialized data via RGB signaling lines."

The patent was filed on June 27, 2023, under ...