US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 12 for "Heterogeneous file optimization" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,792, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Heterogeneous file optimization" was invented by Ran Kalach (Bellevue, Wash.) and Mathew James Dickson (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of heterogeneously optimizing a file. Heterogeneous optimization involves optimizing regions of a file non-uniformly. For example, the regions of the file may be optimized to different extents. In accordance with this example, a different optimization technique may be used to optimize each region or subset of the regions. In one aspect, optimiz...