US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 28 for "Compression scheme for stable universal unique identities" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,817, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Compression scheme for stable universal unique identities" was invented by Paul Jerome Kwiatkowski (Woodinville, Wash.), Daniel Ryan Lehenbauer (Kenmore, Wash.), Taylor Scott Williams (Seattle) and Noah David Encke (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to a compression scheme for stable universally unique identities in a collaborative editing environment. A client receives edits to a document and immediately creates a local short identity for an element of each edit, whereby the local short identity ...