US Patent Issued to HITACHI on July 8 for "Data compression and decompression system and method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,311, issued on July 8, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Data compression and decompression system and method thereof" was invented by Hiroaki Akutsu (Tokyo), Takahiro Naruko (Tokyo) and Akifumi Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Both of a high compression ratio and a high processing speed are achievable. In a data compression and decompression system that includes a parallel processing device performing a plurality of processes in parallel, the parallel processing device divides original data into a plurality of data by a predetermined unit. The parallel processing device performs coding processes on the plurality of d...