US Patent Issued to Kioxia on July 7 for "Data compression device, data decompression device, and memory system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,398, issued on July 7, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data compression device, data decompression device, and memory system" was invented by Masato Sumiyoshi (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Sho Kodama (Kamakura 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 data compression device includes all-literal determination circuitry and end-of-block symbol addition circuitry. In a case where dictionary-based compression on a first data block is performed, the all-literal determination circuitry determines whether all one or more symbols in a second data block ar...