US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES on Sept. 8 for "Pre-conditioning of block-based compression blocks for lossless codecs" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,294, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pre-conditioning of block-based compression blocks for lossless codecs" was invented by Navin Patel (Wesley Chapel, Fla.) and Shashank Ranjan (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system preconditions block-compressed texture blocks by separately streaming color components and index components for lossless compression. The processing system preconditions the color components for linear compression, such that color component data for adjacent compressed blocks in a row are further compressed using lossless compression. L...