ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,836, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FUGU SOLUTIONS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and system for high-volume compression of IPV4 unicast addresses" was invented by Yancy Fox (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for compressing IPv4 unicast addresses, can involve dividing one or more IPv4 unicast addresses among a group of IPv4 unicast addresses into a network portion and a host portion, grouping IPv4 unicast addresses into groups based on the network portion, summarizing the host portion of each group among the groups into a set of IPv4 unicast addresses, and encoding the groups in binary format, thereby...