ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,801, issued on Oct. 7.
"Comparison operations in memory" was invented by Kyle B. Wheeler (Meridian, Idaho), Troy A. Manning (Meridian, Idaho) and Richard C. Murphy (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example of the present disclosure includes performing a comparison operation in memory using a logical representation of a first value stored in a first portion of a number of memory cells coupled to a sense line of a memory array and a logical representation of a second value stored in a second portion of the number of memory cells coupled to the sense line of the memory array. The comparison operation compares the first val...