ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,535, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Compressed and secure dram data storage with reduced read-modify-write operations" was invented by Vishal Singh (Bangalore, India), Sonu Kumar Shubham (Madhubani, India), Pransu Pramod Kumar Shrivastav (Thane, India) and Vasantha Kumar Bandur Puttappa (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided that includes a compression engine, a metadata processor, and a memory having a burst length. The compression engine compresses source data according to a compression ratio to form compressed data. The metadata processor processes the compressed dat...