US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on April 8 for "Lossless compression of large data sets for systems on a chip" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,590, issued on April 8, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Lossless compression of large data sets for systems on a chip" was invented by Sridhar Gurumurthy Isukapalli Sharma (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Richard Lawrence Greene (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system on a chip (SoC) includes a first subsystem, a second subsystem and a compression block connected to the first and second subsystems, wherein the compression block includes a decoder and an encoder. The compression block receives spill data generated by a compute element in one of the first and second subsystems, compresses t...