US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 7 for "Single instruction multiple data (SIMD) sparse decompression with variable density" (Texas, California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,556, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Single instruction multiple data (SIMD) sparse decompression with variable density" was invented by Eric Wayne Mahurin (Austin, Texas), Erich Plondke (Austin, Texas), Hitesh Kumar Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Colin Beaton Verrilli (Apex, N.C.) and Rexford Alan Hill (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the disclosure relates to a data processing system, including: an input medium configured to include a first set of blocks of data including a first set of block of compressed data and a first set of metadata, respectively; an output medium configured to i...