ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,260, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"File compression using sequence alignment" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Ilan Buyum (Kfar-Aza, Israel) and Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compressing files is disclosed. An input file to be compressed is first aligned. Aligning the file includes splitting the file into sequences that can be aligned. The result is a compression matrix, where each row of the matrix corresponds to part of the file. A consensus sequence id determined from the compression matrix. Using the consensus sequence, pointer pairs...