ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,357, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Memory bit cell for in-memory computation" was invented by Michael A. Dreesen (Austin, Texas), Ajay Bhatia (Saratoga, Calif.), Michael R. Seningen (Austin, Texas), Greg M. Hess (Mountain View, Calif.) and Siddhesh Gaiki (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute-memory circuit included in a computer system may include multiple compute data storage cells coupled to a compute bit line via respective capacitors. The compute data storage cells may store respective bits of a weight value. During a multiply operation, an operand may be used to generat...