ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,857, issued on March 17, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for operating system multiloading and virtualization using codebook encoding of data streams and process calls" 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 for operating system virtualization using codebook encoding to improve entropy encoding methods. Training data sets are analyzed to determine occurrence frequency of each sourceblock in the data sets. A mismatch probability estimate is calculated at which any given data sourceblock received will not...