Preferred Networks Assigned Patent

Preferred Networks, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11,387,844) developed by Ahmed, Tanvir, Tokyo, Japan, for “data compression method, data compression apparatus, data decompression method, data decompression apparatus and data storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a data compression method. The method includes generating, by one or more processors, compressed data from data, wherein the compressed data includes one or more unduplicated values of the data and generating, by the one or more processors, index data from the data, wherein the index data includes indices indicative of storage locations for the unduplicated values.”

The patent application was filed on April 2, 2020 (16/838,343).