US Patent Issued to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL on Sept. 9 for "Methods and apparatuses for hierarchically encoding and decoding a bytestream" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,754, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Methods and apparatuses for hierarchically encoding and decoding a bytestream" 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: "There may be provided a method of decoding a received set of encoded data representing information that has been compressed, wherein the encoded data set is divided into a hierarchy of subsets, the method comprising: decoding at least one first subset to derive a respective set of attribute metadata eleme...