US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITA' DI PISA on March 18 for "Compression and search process on a data set based on multiple strategies" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,970, issued on March 18, was assigned to UNIVERSITA' DI PISA (Pisa, Italy).

"Compression and search process on a data set based on multiple strategies" was invented by Paolo Ferragina (Pisa, Italy), Giovanni Manzini (Pisa, Italy) and Giorgio Vinciguerra (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "compression and search process on a data set based on multiple strategies, including: extracting a set of raw data and transforming it into a sequence of symbols, manipulating the sequence by combining data structures and one or more (optionally a multiplicity of) compression strategies to obtain compressed and efficiently searchable data, ...