ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,319, issued on April 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data stored or free space based FIFO buffer" was invented by Yanjie Pan (Shanghai), Yong Jiang (Shanghai), Yuanyuan Li (Shanghai) and Yong Zhang (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for variable precision first in, first out (FIFO) buffers (VPFB) that dynamically changes the amount of data to be stored in the VPFB based on a current amount of data stored in the VPFB and/or based on a current amount of available memory space of the VPFB. The currently unavailable memory space (or the current...