US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 21 for "Compression for sparse data structures utilizing mode search approximation" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,218, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Compression for sparse data structures utilizing mode search approximation" was invented by Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Karol Szerszen (Hillsboro, Ore.), Eric Liskay (Folsom, Calif.) and Karthik Vaidyanathan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are generally directed to compression for compression for sparse data structures utilizing mode search approximation. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including a graphics processor to process data; and a memory for s...