ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,685, issued on April 7, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).
"System and methods for bandwidth-efficient data encoding" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.) and Aliasghar Riahi (Orinda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for bandwidth-efficient data encoding comprising a sequence analyzer configured to: analyze a received sequence dataset to determine a sequence dataset file type, scan the sequence dataset to maintain a count of unique characters contained therein, identify positions where the unique character count increases by a power of two, deconstruct the sequence dataset...