ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,099, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Unified stateless compression system for universally consumable compression" was invented by Karol A. Szerszen (Hillsboro, Ore.), Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.), Vidhya Krishnan (Folsom, Calif.), Aditya Navale (Folsom, Calif.), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Altug Koker (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Ronald W. Silvas (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a compression engine that stores the compression format information embedded in the compressed data. The compression format information can be included in a hea...