ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,721, issued on May 27, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).
"Data compression techniques for efficient network management" was invented by Sunilkumar jagdishbhai Prajapati (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data compression for efficient network management are described herein. In one example, group(s) of bytes are formed from among input bytes to be compressed. The groups are formed by including bytes having at least a certain number (e.g., three) zero-valued most significant bits (MSBs). A byte of input data having several zero-valued MSBs may be in several groups. A group having the larges...