ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,775, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for data compaction and security with extended functionality" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.), Aliasghar Riahi (Orinda, Calif.), Mojgan Haddad (Orinda, Calif.), Ryan Kourosh Riahi (Orinda, Calif.), Razmin Riahi (Orinda, Calif.) and Charles Yeomans (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for highly efficient encoding of data that includes extended functionality for asymmetric encoding/decoding and network policy enforcement. In the case of asymmetric encoding/decoding the original data is enc...