ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,785, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Sparsity storage architectures for transposable datasets" was invented by Thomas Craig Savell (Emeryville, Calif.), Spencer Ellis Williams (Raleigh, N.C.), Nitin Naresh Garegrat (San Jose, Calif.) and Kyung-Nam Han (Oviedo, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for manipulating sparsity storage architectures are provided. One aspect includes a computing device for implementing sparsity storage architectures, the computing device comprising processing circuitry and memory comprising instructions that, during execution, causes the pro...