US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Aug. 5 for "Method and system for performing a compaction/merge job using a merge based tile architecture" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,072, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Method and system for performing a compaction/merge job using a merge based tile architecture" was invented by Waseem Kraipak (Hyderabad, India), Brian Michael Rogers (Durham, N.C.) and Pradipkumar Arunbhai Thaker (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware-based compaction accelerator may comprise two or more decoders, a merge iterator, a compaction module, and an encoder. Each of the decoders converts a sorted string table (SST) files into a corresponding key-value (KV) format data stream. The merge iterator receives a KV format data stream fro...