ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,632, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Payload size reduction and reassembly of recursively parsable structures" was invented by Arno Schneuwly (Effretikon, Switzerland), Felix Schmidt (Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland), Saeid Allahdadian (Vancover, Canada) and Matteo Casserini (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Here is message compression using schema inference for condensing semantic content by removal of syntactic structure in multiple kinds of content. Topological structures of different trees are generalized to generate a merged tree. Because compression discards redundant con...