ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,080, issued on March 17, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"System and method for compression of data stream" was invented by Fabien Racape (Los Altos, Calif.), Swayambhoo Jain (Los Altos, Calif.), Shahab Hamidi-Rad (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jean Begaint (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products, according to a first aspect, for compressing data including encoding at least one information representative of a use, during the compression, of a compressed sparse format.Procedures, methods, architectures...