ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,056, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Anaflash Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multiply-accumulate unit" was invented by Seung-Hwan Song (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sang-Soo Lee (Cupertino, Calif.) and Sihwan Kim (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog multiplier accumulator array comprises analog multipliers organized in a matrix of rows and columns, each of the multiplier comprising one or more than one analog input signal line coupled to the analog multipliers in a row of the array; an analog level sensing circuit; a set of bit lines, each bit line electrically connected to the analog multiplier in each column of the row; a...