ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,214, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for distributed node-based data compaction with dyadic distribution-based compression and encryption" 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 distributed node-based data compaction. The system uses machine learning on data chunks to generate codebooks which compact the data to be stored, processed, or sent with a smaller data profile than uncompacted data. The system uses a data compaction in an existing blockchain fork or implemented ...