ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,044, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Rivos Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Fast decoding of compressed data" was invented by Sai Krishna Manapragada (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to methods for decompressing a compressed data stream. An example method includes reading groups of data from the compressed data stream and, for each group of data read from the compressed data stream, identifying symbols in the group of data, the symbols having a type corresponding to Literal bytes or Copy bytes of data in the compressed data stream, processing each symbol in one of a plurality of processi...