ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,804, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory allocation technologies for data compression and de-compression" was invented by Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Karol A. Szerszen (Hillsboro, Ore.), Karthik Vaidyanathan (San Francisco), Sreenivas Kothandaraman (Sammamish, Wash.) and Mohamed Farook (Tamilnadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a manner of determining a number of bits to encode compression data. Some examples include: compressing pixel data of a region of pixels in a frame; determining a number of...