ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,253, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NUTS HOLDINGS LLC (Glenco, Ill.).

"Structured data folding with transmutations" was invented by Yoon Ho Auh (Glencoe, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing data includes at least one processor accessing a data storage unit, the data storage unit providing at least one input data object and at least one transmutation command to be performed on the at least one input data object. The at least one transmutation command operates in a forward mode on the at least one input data object to produce at least one output data object to be stored in a data storage unit."

The patent was ...