ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,983, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory management method based on compressed memory and apparatus using the same" was invented by Youngsam Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Deok Jae Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory management method based on a compressed memory and an apparatus using the same are provided. A memory device includes a memory and a near memory processing unit. The memory includes a normal memory area for storing uncompressed data and a compressed memory area for storing compressed data. The near memory processing unit is con...