US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 12 for "Encoding of binary data for secure transmission" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,983, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Encoding of binary data for secure transmission" was invented by Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encoding of binary data for secure transmission includes compressing, by a processing device, a binary object into a number. The processing device identifies one or more prime factors of the number. The processing device generates an encoded representation of the binary object including mapping each of the one or more prime factors to a corresponding prime factor representation in a plurality of prime factor repre...