ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,228, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Bit-packing method for lightening NFA data structure in extended regular expression matching process, apparatus and computer program for performing the method" was invented by Yo-Sub Han (Seoul, South Korea), JoongHyuk Hahn (Seoul, South Korea) and Sicheol Sung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, according to a bit-packing method for lighting an NFA data structure during a process of matching an extended regular expression, an apparatus...