US Patent Issued to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL on Feb. 4 for "Decoder devices, methods and computer programs" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,160, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Decoder devices, methods and computer programs" was invented by Guido Meardi (London), Simone Ferrara (London) and Gaurav Mittal (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical telepresence system comprising: an interface to receive a plurality of data feeds from a live medical procedure, at least one data feed comprising a video signal capturing the live medical procedure; a hierarchical encoder to encode the plurality of data feeds using a first tier-based hierarchical data coding scheme, wherein encoded data from the hierarchical encoder is decodable by a ...