US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 20 for "File compression using sequence splits and sequence alignment" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,320, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"File compression using sequence splits and sequence alignment" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Ilan Buyum (Kfar-Aza, Ill.) 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. When splitting the file into sequences or when performing subsequent recursive splitting, the splitting is based on a longest sequence match. The result is a compression matrix, where eac...