ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,537, issued on June 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Partitional data compression" was invented by Shuo Li (Beijing), Xiaobo Wang (Beijing), Leilei Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Sheng Yan Sun (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system collects statistical data for a data page, divides the data page into parts, analyzes the data page and the statistical data, based on compression efficiency of one or more compression methods for each part of each page, to determine a compression method for each part of page, and compresses, based on the analyzing, the parts of the data page."
The patent was...