US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Aug. 12 for "Compression of analog content addressable memory" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,788, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Compression of analog content addressable memory" was invented by Giacomo Pedretti (Verbania, Italy), Catherine Graves (Milpitas, Calif.) and John Paul Strachan (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for compressing an analog content addressable memory (CAM) array is provided. Random input data is applied to the analog CAM array, and an average measure of similarity is calculated for each output row of the analog CAM array. Rows of the analog CAM array that have measures of similarity that are close to each othe...