US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Oct. 28 for "Lossless compression with probabilistic circuits" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,231, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Lossless compression with probabilistic circuits" was invented by Stephan Mandt (Irvine, Calif.), Anji Liu (Los Angeles) and Guy Van den Broeck (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems for lossless compression utilizing probabilistic circuits (PCs) are provided. In one embodiments, a method for lossless compression using PCs is provided, the method comprising: receiving image data comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the plurality of pixels is represented by a variable; sequentially com...