ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,097, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Efficient encoding validation" was invented by Marco Patrick Schroeder (Munich), Suyeon Maeng (Seoul, South Korea), Sooyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyungwook Ko (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are provided for determining the validity of encoded data. Data encoding techniques associated with a particular format can encode characters as a sequence of bytes, where the bytes can be of particular types. Particular sequences of byte types can be valid or invalid using a given encoding format. Lookup tables can be defined ...