ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,086, issued on March 25, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for data compaction utilizing mismatch probability estimation" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.), Aliasghar Riahi (Orinda, Calif.) and Charles Yeomans (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Codebook data compaction using a universal codebook and mismatch probability estimations to improve entropy encoding methods. Training data sets are analyzed to determine the frequency of occurrence of each sourceblock in the training data sets. A mismatch probability estimate is calculated comprising an estimated frequency...