US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 23 for "Warm start file compression using sequence alignment" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,269, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Warm start 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. The compression matrix may also serve as a warm start if additional compression is desired. Co...