ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,668, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for performing dictionary-based lossless cache line compression by using patterns that are set with the aid of artificial intelligence" was invented by Shu-Hsin Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cache device includes a cache memory and a compression circuit. The cache memory includes a plurality of cache lines. The compression circuit performs a dictionary-based lossless compression upon a compression unit according to at least one pattern selected from a plurality of patterns, and stores a compression result...