ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,710, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method with compressed memory" was invented by Seongwook Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing compressed memory includes: receiving a memory command to read compressed data from the compressed memory by decompression thereof by the compressed memory or to write data that is to be compressed and stored by the compressed memory; obtaining, based on the memory command, allocated-state information indicating allocation states of respective slots of the compressed memory; obtaining a slot ...