ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,047, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to perform weight and activation compression and decompression" was invented by Nilesh Jain (Portland, Ore.), Menachem Adelman (Haifa, Israel), Raanan Sade (Kibutz Sarid, Israel), Ravishankar Iyer (Portland, Ore.), Rajesh Poornachandran (Portland, Ore.) and Yash Akhauri (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to perform weight and activation compression and decompression are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor...