ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,873, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Compute-in-memory systems and methods" was invented by Eriko Nurvitadhi (Hillsboro, Ore.), Scott J. Weber (Piedmont, Calif.), Ravi Prakash Gutala (San Jose, Calif.) and Aravind Raghavendra Dasu (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device may include programmable logic circuitry on a first integrated circuit die and memory that includes compute-in-memory circuitry on a second die. The programmable logic circuitry may be programmed with a circuit design that operates on a first set of data. The compute-in-memory circuitry of the ...