ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,752, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Pattern matching for human readable prime number compression (HRPNC)" was invented by Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.), Christopher V Derobertis (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Ryan Thomas Rawlins (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Arkadiy O. Tsfasman (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and Pasquale A. Catalano (Wallkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pattern matching for human readable prime number compression (HRPNC), including: identifying, in a binary object, one or more portions of the binary object matching one or more patt...