US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 3 for "Unified memory compression mechanism" (California, Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,124, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Unified memory compression mechanism" was invented by Sreenivas Kothandaraman (Sammamish, Wash.), Karthik Vaidyanathan (San Francisco), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Karol Szerszen (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to facilitate compression of memory data is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors to receive uncompressed data, adapt a format of the uncompressed data to a compression format, perform a color transformation from a first color space to a second color ...