US Patent Issued to EMEMORY TECHNOLOGY on March 25 for "Multiply accumulate circuit for binary neural network system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,318, issued on March 25, was assigned to EMEMORY TECHNOLOGY INC. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Multiply accumulate circuit for binary neural network system" was invented by Chia-Fu Chang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Cheng-Heng Chung (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Ching-Yuan Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiply accumulate circuit receives m one-bit neuron values from a first layer of a neural network system. The multiply accumulate circuit includes m non-volatile memory cells and m current sources. In addition, m current paths are defined by the m non-volatile memory cells and the m current sources collaboratively....