US Patent Issued to Think Silicon Research and Technology Single Member on Nov. 11 for "Fixed-size block compression techniques for RGB channels" (Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,724, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Think Silicon Research and Technology Single Member S.A. (Rion Achaias, Greece).

"Fixed-size block compression techniques for RGB channels" was invented by Georgios Keramidas (Patras, Greece), Ioannis Manthopoulos (Thessalonika, Greece), Ioannis Blagas (Thessalonika, Greece), Athanasia Lytra (Thessalonika, Greece), Chrysa Kokkala (Patras, Greece) and Iakovos Stamoulis (Patras, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for fixed size texture compression utilizes a four pixel block. The method includes determining a first endpoint of a pixel block including four pixels, each pixel...