ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,578, issued on May 5, was assigned to LogNovations Holdings LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Encoding / decoding system and method" was invented by Christopher A. McElveen (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: encoding an unencoded data file to generate a related encoded data file based, at least in part, upon a plurality of mappings to a plurality of portions of a dictionary file; receiving a request to manipulate the unencoded data file; and processing the related encoded data file based, at least in part, upon the plurality of mappings and the dictionary file...