ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,975, issued on April 22, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for dyadic distribution-based compression and encryption" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.), Grant Fickes (Columbia, S.C.) and Charles Yeomans (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for simultaneous compression and encryption of data. The system analyzes input data to determine its properties and creates a transformation matrix based on these properties. Using this matrix, the input data is transformed into a modified distribution, generating a main data stream of transformed data and a secon...