US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 29 for "Encoding and compressing bits with Write-X feature in memory system" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,129, issued on July 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Encoding and compressing bits with Write-X feature in memory system" was invented by Nikesh Agarwal (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer host system, a system and method to compress the transmission between the central processing unit (CPU) and the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) of either of an extended consecutive series of '0' bits or an extended consecutive series of '1' bits. The CPU or a Compute Express Link (CXL) Initiator associated with the CPU identifies the consecutive strings of '0' bits or '1' bits. The CPU or the CX...