US Patent Issued to The MITRE on May 20 for "Systems and methods for distributed quantization of multimodal images" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,395, issued on May 20, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for distributed quantization of multimodal images" was invented by Robert M. Taylor Jr. (New Market, Md.) and Jeffrey P. Woodard (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for implementing a distributed source coding quantization scheme is provided. In one example, two independent but statistically correlated data sources can be asymmetrically compressed so that one source is compressed at a higher ratio than the other. The resulting signals are transmitted and decoded by a receiver. The highly compressed source can utilize...