ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,541, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with data compression and/or decompression" was invented by Hyeongseok Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Deok Jae Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seong Wook Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method including generating k sub-compressed data streams based on a compressed data stream for a plurality of symbols divided into a plurality of k blocks and count information for each of the plurality of k blocks, generating k sub-symbols by processing each of the k sub-compressed data st...