US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 9 for "Apparatus and method for constant detection during compress operations" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,800, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for constant detection during compress operations" was invented by James David Guilford (Northborough, Mass.), Vinodh Gopal (Westborough, Mass.), Daniel Frederick Cutter (Maynard, Mass.) and Kirk Yap (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for detecting a constant data block are described herein. An apparatus embodiment includes compression circuitry to perform compression operations on a memory block; constant detection circuitry to, concurrently with performance of the compression operations on the memory b...