ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,585, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Efficient recompression of compressed data" was invented by Qingxi Meng (Cupertino, Calif.), Shubham Chandak (Mountain View, Calif.), Dmitri Pavlichin (Redwood City, Calif.), Itschak Weissman (Stanford, Calif.), Christopher George Burgess (Charlotte, N.C.), Andrew Kent Warfield (Vancouver, Canada) and Aaron Joseph Smith (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Efficient recompression is performed for compressed data. A compressed data object original compressed using intermediate representations is obtained. The data object is partially decompressed to g...