ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,240, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Techniques for high-speed decoding of variable length integers" was invented by Gang Liao (Los Angeles), Ye Liu (Los Angeles), Yonghua Ding (Los Angeles), Le Cai (Los Angeles) and Jianjun Chen (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for decoding variable length integers including obtaining a series of bits encoding one or more variable length integers, applying a mask to the series of bits to determine a number of bytes that correspond to each of the one or more variable length integers in the series of bits, and decoding each...