US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 8 for "Adding content to compressed files using sequence alignment" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,358, issued on July 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Adding content to compressed files 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, which is associated with an original file and new content, is to be compressed. The input includes a consensus sequence of the original file and the new content. The new content is aligned based using the consensus sequence of the original file in order to generate a new consensus sequence that reflects both ...