ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,851, issued on March 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Verifying compressed stream fused with copy or transform operations" was invented by Vinodh Gopal (Westborough, Mass.), James D. Guilford (Northborough, Mass.) and Daniel F. Cutter (Maynard, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus relating to verifying a compressed stream fused with copy or transform operation(s) are described. In an embodiment, compression logic circuitry compresses input data and stores the compressed data in a temporary buffer. The compression logic circuitry determines a first checksum value corresponding to the compres...