ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,308, issued on July 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data compression method and apparatus" was invented by Jianmin Huang (Dongguan, China) and Chao Song (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression system includes at least one acceleration device, a memory of the acceleration device stores a compression library, and the compression library includes one or more compression algorithms that support implementation of a lossless compression mode. The lossless compression mode is split into one or more fine-grained compression algorithms. Therefore, when obtaining any compression request...