US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York on May 27 for "System and method for concurrent encryption and lossless compression of data" (Florida, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,352, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.).

"System and method for concurrent encryption and lossless compression of data" was invented by Ziya Arnavut (Fredonia, N.Y.), Basar Koc (DeLand, Fla.) and Huseyin Kocak (Coral Gables, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for concurrent encryption and lossless compression of data with an algorithm executing on a computer platform. The lossless compression component of the algorithm consists of preprocessing the data with a Burrows-Wheeler transformation followed by an inversion ranking transformation i...