ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,853, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).
"System and method for data compaction and encryption of anonymized data records" was invented by Joshua Cooper (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 data compaction and encryption of anonymized data records. A dataset may be pre-processed by dividing into a plurality of sourceblocks at all reasonable sourceblock lengths, and then counting how many times each sourceblock occurs in the dataset, resulting in a tally record of tokens and their count value. This tally record may then b...