ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,696, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC (Moraga, Calif.).

"Data compression with protocol adaptation" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.) and Aliasghar Riahi (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for data compression with protocol adaptation, that utilizes a codebook generator which leverages one or more machine/deep learning algorithms trained on at least a plurality of protocol policies in order to generate a protocol appendix and codebook, wherein original data is encoded by an encoder according to the codebook and sent to a decoder, but instead of just decoding the d...