US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on July 22 for "Decompression engine supporting large match offsets using external memory" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,142, issued on July 22, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Decompression engine supporting large match offsets using external memory" was invented by Hillel Chapman (Ramat HaShofet, Israel) and Saleh Bohsas (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decompression apparatus includes a cache memory and a decoder. The decoder is to receive a compressed input data stream including literals and matches. Each literal represents a data value, and each match represents a respective sequence of literals by a respective offset pointing to a respective past occurrence of the sequence of literals. The decoder is t...