US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 23 for "Using an ensemble of data transformers to encode data before zero-value compression" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,897, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Using an ensemble of data transformers to encode data before zero-value compression" was invented by Bulent Abali (Tenafly, N.J.) and Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a compression unit, a cache memory, and method for using an ensemble of data transformers to encode data before zero-value compression. A plurality of data transformers that each perform a transform on an input chunk to produce a transformed chunk having more zeroes than the input chunk. A selection unit selects a transformed...