US Patent Issued to Chongqing University on April 29 for "Erasing-based lossless compression and decompression methods for floating-point data" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,120, issued on April 29, was assigned to Chongqing University (Chongqing, China).

"Erasing-based lossless compression and decompression methods for floating-point data" was invented by Ruiyuan Li (Chongqing, China), Jun Jiang (Chongqing, China), Chao Chen (Chongqing, China), Dongxia Zhang (Guangdong, China), Zheng Li (Chongqing, China) and Yi Wu (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure propose an Erasing-based Lossless Floating-point compression method, i.e., Elf. The main idea of Elf is to erase the last few bits (i.e., set them to zero) of floating-point values, so the XORed values are s...