ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,364, issued on March 31, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"In-situ memory compression" was invented by Saideep Tiku (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Poorna Kale (Folsom, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject application relates to in-situ compression of data in a main memory and storing of the compressed data in the same main memory to improve memory optimization. A hardware logic of a memory device may receive modified pages from a first portion of memory array, cause a page compression accelerator in the hardware logic to compress the received modified pages to generate compressed data, and facilitate st...