US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 5 for "Performing multiple bit computation and convolution in memory" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,899, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Performing multiple bit computation and convolution in memory" was invented by Shahzad Nazar (Fremont, Calif.), Bharan Giridhar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mohamed H. Abu-Rahma (Mountain View, Calif.), Ajay Bhatia (Saratoga, Calif.), Mayur V. Joshi (San Carlos, Calif.), Yildiz Sinangil (Campbell, Calif.) and Aravind Kandala (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute-memory circuit included in a computer system includes multiple data storage cells and multiplier circuits. The data storage cells store weight values associated with a first operand. The multi...