US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 24 for "Enforced checksums for human readable prime number compression (HRPNC)" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,202, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compressing binary data into a human-readable format is provided. The method includes calculating a digital checksum for a binary object using a predetermined check...