US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Technique to handle insufficient on-chip memory capacity in decompressors" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,178, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Technique to handle insufficient on-chip memory capacity in decompressors" was invented by Bulent Abali (Tenafly, N.J.), Matthias Klein (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Ashutosh Mishra (Lagrangeville, N.Y.) and Girish Gopala Kurup (Jagadishnagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to handle insufficient on-chip memory capacity in decompressors is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes executing, by a decompressor configured to decompress data, an instruction configured to copy data from a source position within a data stream...