US Patent Issued to ZEROPOINT TECHNOLOGIES on July 15 for "Systems, methods and devices for exploiting value similarity in computer memories" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,895, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZEROPOINT TECHNOLOGIES AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Systems, methods and devices for exploiting value similarity in computer memories" was invented by Angelos Arelakis (Hovas, Sweden), Alexandra Angerd (Molndal, Sweden), Erik Sintorn (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Per Stenstrom (Torslanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data compression method is disclosed which involves obtaining a plurality of data blocks, each data block comprising a plurality of data values. The method performs base-delta encoding of the obtained plurality of data blocks, wherein a delta value means a difference between a d...