US Patent Issued to Imec vzw on Nov. 4 for "Matrix-vector multiplications based on charge-summing memory cell strings" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,880, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Imec vzw (Leuven, Belgium).

"Matrix-vector multiplications based on charge-summing memory cell strings" was invented by Jonas Doevenspeck (Herent, Belgium), Maarten Rosmeulen (Ghent, Belgium) and Stefan Cosemans (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to matrix-vector multiplications based on charge-summing memory cell strings. An example in-memory compute device for performing analog multiply-and-accumulate operations on a set of data inputs and a set of weight inputs includes a string of serially connected memory cells formed over a semiconductor channel struc...