ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,270, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for manipulation of compacted data files" was invented by Aliasghar Riahi (Orinda, Calif.), Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.), Mojgan Haddad (Orinda, Calif.) and Charles Yeomans (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for manipulation of compacted data files, utilizing a reference codebook, a random-access engine, a data deconstruction engine, and a data deconstruction engine. The system may receive a data query pertaining to a data read or data write request, wherein the data file to be read from or writt...