ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,661, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).
"Data file compression" was invented by Anton Chuprun (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Robert William Taylor (Chicago), Sean Michael Downey (Chicago), Matthew Scott Simpson (Wheaton, Ill.), Matthew Steven Waldis (Fairfield, Conn.) and Jeffrey Graham Rosenthal (Lombard, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of reducing data elements in a data file includes: receiving a data file including one or more primary data elements; storing the data file in a memory coupled to the processor; generating, from at least one of the one or more primary d...