ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,209, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Efficient data compression in processing systems" was invented by Jian Shen (San Diego) and Jamie Menjay Lin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for efficiently performing operations using data compression. An example method generally includes identifying, for a block of data samples, a number of leading bits to remove from each data sample in the block of data samples. A block of compressed data samples is generated based on the identified number of leading bits and truncation of a numb...