ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,462, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Parallel decompression of compressed data streams" was invented by Steven Parker (Draper, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, metadata may be generated corresponding to compressed data streams that are compressed according to serial compression algorithms-such as arithmetic encoding, entropy encoding, etc.-in order to allow for parallel decompression of the compressed data. As a result, modification to the compressed data stream itself may not be required, and bandwidth and storage requirements of the system may be minimally impacted. In a...