US Patent Issued to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 25 for "System and method for compaction of floating-point numbers within a dataset with metadata tagging" (California, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,477, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for compaction of floating-point numbers within a dataset with metadata tagging" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.) and Charles Yeomans (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for multi-level compaction of floating-point numbers and associated metadata within datasets. The system identifies floating-point numbers and their associated metadata, pre-encodes numbers into binary string representations, and encodes metadata into compact binary form. These encoded elements are linked together and in...