ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,551, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Low overhead page recompression" was invented by Evan Lawrence Erickson (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Christopher Haywood (Fernandina Beach, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for low page overhead recompression. In one embodiment a memory buffer integrated circuit (IC) device is disclosed that includes a first circuit configured to independently compress equally sized portions of a page of data, and a second circuit configured to store the compressed data portions at respective addresses in memory. The memory buffer IC device also includes a ...