ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,400, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Block matching between first data and second data" was invented by John Wakefield Brothers III (Calistoga, Calif.), Metin Gokhan Unal (Cambridge, Great Britain), Balaji Venu (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Rune Holm (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for performing a block matching between first data and second data are provided. The block matching is performed using an iterative process, wherein, for each iteration, a portion of the first data and a corresponding portion of t...