ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,553, issued on May 6, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Data compression" was invented by Tad Douglas Swift (Bramley, Great Britain) and Adam James Miles (Woodley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present concepts relate to lossless data compression techniques for reducing the size of a data structure. Certain data in the data structure that can be either recovered from another source or rebuilt from other available information may be removed from the data structure. To further reduce data size, the retained data in the data structure may be packed into a smaller-bit encoding data t...