US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Hardware-based memory compression" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,061, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hardware-based memory compression" was invented by Lintao Zhang (Beijing), John G. Bennett (Sammamish, Wash.) and Bojie Li (Haidian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressed memory is divided into a plurality of segments, each segment is divided into a plurality of sub-segments, and each sub-segment in an uncompressed data space is compressed into block (s) in a compressed data space. Upon a read request to a sub-segment in a segment in compressed memory is received, the corresponding entry is firstly determined based on a first l...