ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,112, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GSI Technology Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Pipeline architecture for bitwise multiplier-accumulator (MAC)" was invented by Avidan Akerib (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unit for accumulating a plurality of multiplied bit values includes a first row and a second row of input units, a bit-wise multiplier and a bit-wise accumulator. The first row receives a pipeline of the bits of a multiplicandthe second row, to the left of the first row, receives a pipeline of the bits of a multiplicand B. The bit-wise multiplier, below the first row of input units, includes multiplier bit-li...