ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,682, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data (Guangdong, China).

"Encoding method, decoding method, electronic device and storage medium" was invented by Ximing Fu (Shenzhen, China) and Shenghao Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method, a decoding method, an electronic device and a storage medium are disclosed. The encoding method includes: acquiring stored data in a storage system, and acquiring nodes corresponding to the stored data to obtain a number of the nodes; dividing the acquired stored data into a sequence of information vectors, and generating an information m...