ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,978, issued on July 21, was assigned to Charter Communications (St. Louis).

"Encrypted and compressed data transfer with performance optimization" was invented by Srihari Siddabathula (St. Charles, Mo.), Neelima Mumgandi (St. Peters, Mo.) and Michael Sean Green (St. Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system communication system has a source location that communicates with a destination location via a network topology. A data extraction and processing gateway of the source location has a source CPU that divides and distributes incoming data to source GPU cores that transform, encrypt, and compress different bl...