US Patent Issued to Think Silicon Research and Technology Single Member on Sept. 30 for "Fixed-size image alpha channel compression techniques" (Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,361, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Think Silicon Research and Technology Single Member S.A. (Rion Achaias, Greece).

"Fixed-size image alpha channel compression techniques" was invented by Georgios Keramidas (Patras, Greece), Ioannis Manthopoulos (Salonika, Greece), Ioannis Blagas (Salonika, Greece), Athanasia Lytra (Salonika, 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 utilizing dynamic alpha channel compression utilizes block-based compression. The method includes determining a first endpoint of a pixel blo...