ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,802, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, Texas).

"System and method for a content-aware and context-aware compression algorithm selection model for a file system" was invented by Michael Marrotte (Windermere, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a file system includes obtaining, by a compression optimizing manager, a compression algorithm selection request for the file system, determining a set of selection inputs based on a set of file system parameters of the file system, applying a compression selection model to the set of selection inputs to obtain a compression algorithm...