ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,240, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CALTERAH SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method and apparatus for determining data storage bit width, and method for storing index data" was invented by Qi Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for determining a data storage bit width and a method for storing exponential data. The method for determining the data storage bit width includes: acquiring data to be stored, the number of which is at least 4; dividing the data into blocks according to a preset number 2n, n is an integer greater than or equal to 2; determining effective bit numbe...