US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for performing data compression in memory" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,841, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems and methods for performing data compression in memory" was invented by Vipin Kumar Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.) and Young Deok Kim (San Jose, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appliance is described. A write engine may process a write request from an application to write a first data into a memory. The write request may including the first data and an address. A compression engine may compress the first data to produce a first compressed data. A write module may store the first compressed data in the memory. The first data may be a first p...