ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,100, issued on July 29, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC.
"Data compression utilizing mismatch probability estimation" 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: "Techniques for compressing data that use mismatch probability estimation to improve entropy encoding methods to account for, and efficiently handle, previously unseen data in data to be compressed. A mismatch probability estimate is calculated comprising an estimat...