ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,440, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).
"Hierarchical data structure" was invented by Ivan Makeev (London), Balazs Keszthelyi (London), Stergios Poularakis (London), Michele Sanna (London) and Robert Ettinger (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a steam of encoded data the method comprising, at a decoder: receiving an encoded dataset comprising multiple tiles; receiving a data structure, said data structure indicative of the amount of data required to encode a plurality of tiles; identifying a portion of the encoded dataset to be decoded by: identifying the tiles associated w...