US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Compression metadata value induced read and write operation conservation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,549, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Compression metadata value induced read and write operation conservation" was invented by Davoud A. Jamshidi (San Jose, Calif.), Justin A. Hensley (Mountain View, Calif.), Tyson J. Bergland (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Karthik Ramani (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In disclosed embodiments, compression circuitry may compress data blocks and compressed write data blocks and corresponding compression metadata to a certain level in a cache/memory hierarchy. In some embodiments, the compression circuitry is configured to detect a pre-determined set of ...