US Patent Issued to Arm on July 15 for "Methods of and apparatus for storing data in memory in graphics processing systems" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,508, issued on July 15, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods of and apparatus for storing data in memory in graphics processing systems" was invented by Hakan Lars-Goran Persson (Skane, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When storing data of an array of data in memory in a graphics processing system, respective memory regions are allocated for storing blocks of the data array, with the allocated region of memory for a block of the data array corresponding to a maximum possible size of the block of the data array when compressed, and being divided into a plurality of memory allocation sub-blocks, having at ...