US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 13 for "Determining whether to compress data at a source device to transmit to a target device" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,298, issued on May 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Determining whether to compress data at a source device to transmit to a target device" was invented by Lokesh Mohan Gupta (Tucson, Ariz.), Matthew G. Borlick (Tucson, Ariz.), Beth Ann Peterson (Tucson, Ariz.), Clint A. Hardy (Tucson, Ariz.) and Roger G. Hathorn (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for determining whether to compress data at a source device to transmit to a target device. A determination is made of network bandwidth between the source device and the target ...