ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,071, issued on May 26, was assigned to Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data packing for power and area-efficient memory structures and performance-efficient decoding of encoded data" was invented by Durga Neeraj Koidala (Hyderabad, India), Robert Bellarmin Susai (Hyderabad, India), Vishnu Cheerakoda (Hyderabad, India) and Rohit Kumar Sharma (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for packing data includes a controller configured to receive compressed data. The compressed data includes data items and qualifier bits for the data items. The controller is configured to discard the data items designated as invalid by the...