ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,089, issued on May 20, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for compaction of floating-point numbers within a dataset" 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 compaction of floating-point numbers within a dataset, comprising a pre-encoder, a data deconstruction engine, a library manager, a codeword storage, and a data reconstruction engine. A pre-encoder may receiv...