US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Data compression using instruction set architecture" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,499, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Data compression using instruction set architecture" was invented by Tomonari Tohara (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vignesh Vivekraja (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alagappan Valliappan (Kirkland, Wash.), Andrey Bushev (Kirkland, Wash.) and Javid Jaffari (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a computing system may set data to a first group of registers. The first group of registers may be configured to be accessed during a single operation cycle. The system may set a number of patterns to a second group of registers. Each pattern of th...