US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Feb. 17 for "Data compression circuit, memory system and method for controlling the data compression circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,635, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data compression circuit, memory system and method for controlling the data compression circuit" was invented by Kohei Oikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Sho Kodama (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Yashima (Tokyo), Youhei Fukazawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Sumiyoshi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keiri Nakanishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a data compression circuit includes a plurality of intermediate match candidate generation circuits. Each of the plurality of intermediate match candidate generation circuits generates an intermediate match cand...