US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Transferring compressed data between locations" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,441, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Transferring compressed data between locations" was invented by Micah Robison (Tucson, Ariz.), Matthew G. Borlick (Tucson, Ariz.) and Lokesh Mohan Gupta (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: causing compressed data to be read from a first compressed drive without decompressing the compressed data. A copy of the compressed data is also received from the first compressed drive. In response to determining a target location for the copy of the compressed data is a secon...