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 | | The algorithm isderived from the LZ77algorithm presented by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in a paper entitled "A UniversalAlgorithm for Sequential Data Compression" in the IEEETransactions on Information Theory, May 1977. |
 | | LZ78 was covered by U.S. Patent 4,464,650by Lempel, Ziv, Cohn, and Eastman, assigned to SperryCorporation, later Unisys Corporation, filed on August 10, 1981, and presumably now expired. |
 | | TwoUS patents were issued for the LZW algorithm: U.S. Patent 4,814,746by Victor S. Miller and Mark N. Wegman and assigned to IBM, originally filed onJune 1, 1983, and U.S. Patent 4,558,302by Welch, assigned to Sperry Corporation, later Unisys Corporation,filed on June 20,1983. |
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