ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,334, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Transformations for signal enhancement coding" was invented by Guido Meardi (London) and Ivan Damnjanovic (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Measures are provided to encode a signal. An input frame (102) is received and down-sampled to obtain a down-sampled frame (103). The down-sampled frame (103) is passed to an encoding module (104) which encodes the down-sampled frame (103) to generate an encoded frame (105). A decoded frame is obtained from a decoding module (106) which generates the decoded frame by decoding the encoded frame (105). A set of residu...