US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on June 23 for "Deferred adaptive compression using computational storage for energy savings" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,922, issued on June 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Deferred adaptive compression using computational storage for energy savings" was invented by Eric Lawrence Barsness (Pine Island, Minn.), Nicholas Battani (Rochester, Minn.), Joshua Paul Guyer (West St Paul, Minn.) and Connor Mulcahy (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method, system, and computer program product for performing deferred adaptive compression via a computational storage. On a drive that is initially empty, all data is written as uncompressed. In response to a first threshold level of storage space...