ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,193, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Information compression/decompression methods and apparatuses, and storage medium" was invented by Junping Gao (Shenzhen, China), Zhenfeng Cui (Shenzhen, China) and Zhen Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for information compression/decompression, apparatuses and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method for information compression may include: clustering text blocks to be processed into respective-text areas according to pixel distribution information of the text blocks to be processed; acquiring text row ...