ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,945, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Data elision" was invented by Klas Magnus Bruce (Leander, Texas), Jamshed Jalal (Austin, Texas), Hakan Lars-Goran Persson (Bjarred, Sweden) and Phanindra Kumar Mannava (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to determining circuitry determining that a portion of data to be sent to a recipient over an interconnect has a predetermined value, data sending circuitry performs data elision to: omit sending at least one data FLIT corresponding to the portion of data having the predetermined value; and send a data-elision-specifying FLIT specifying ...