ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,169, issued on July 29, was assigned to ANAFLASH Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Time-based multiply- and-accumulate computation" was invented by Shahrzad Naraghi (San Jose, Calif.) and Ankush Goel (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems, and methods for performing time-domain multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) computations. In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises first and second circuits. The first circuit is configured to (a) perform a first multiplication in response to a trigger signal, the first multiplication being a product of a first value and a second value, and (b) generate a completion si...