ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,553, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to decode zero-value-compression data vectors" was invented by Gautham Chinya (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Debabrata Mohapatra (San Jose, Calif.), Arnab Raha (San Jose, Calif.), Huichu Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Cormac Brick (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus are disclosed to decode zero-value-compression data vectors. An example apparatus includes: a buffer monitor to monitor a buffer for a header including a value indicative of compressed da...