ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,461, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Compression device and compression method" was invented by Youhei Fukazawa (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Sho Kodama (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Keiri Nakanishi (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a compression device includes a substring generator and a match information generator. The substring generator receives generates substrings which are stored in a memory. Byte positions of the substrings are different from each other. The match information generator determines a first string, at least part thereof matching at least...