ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,093, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for random-access manipulation of compacted data files" 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 random-access manipulation of compacted data files, utilizing a reference codebook, a random-access engine, a data deconstruction engine, and a data deconstruction engine. The system may receive a data query pertaining to a data read or data write request, wherein the data file to be read from or written to is a compacted data file. A random...