ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,624, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and methods for secure deduplication of compacted data" 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 methods for secure deduplication of compacted data comprising a data deconstruction engine, a data reconstruction engine, a library manager, a reference codebook, and a codeword storage which performs simultaneous compaction and deduplication of data sets. A data set may be comprised of one or more sourcepackets which may be optimally deconstructed into a plurali...