US Patent Issued to Intel on May 12 for "Adaptive compression for accelerator devices" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,626, issued on May 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adaptive compression for accelerator devices" was invented by Fei Wang (Clare, Ireland), John Browne (Limerick, Ireland) and Laurent Coquerel (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accelerator device may access an input data chunk to be compressed by the accelerator device. The accelerator device may access an entropy value for the input data chunk. The accelerator device may compress the input data chunk or return an indication that the input data chunk will not be compressed based on the entropy value and an entropy threshold."

The patent was f...