ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,148, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for effective compression representation and decompression of diverse tabulated data" was invented by Shubham Chandak (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Yee Him Cheung (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling compression of data includes accessing genomic annotation data in one of a plurality of first file formats, extracting attributes from the genomic annotation data, dividing the genomic annotation data into multiple chunks, and processing the extracted attributes and chunks into correlated information. The me...