US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on March 4 for "Compute-in-memory devices, systems and methods of operation thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,949, issued on March 4, was assigned to Infineon Technologies LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Compute-in-memory devices, systems and methods of operation thereof" was invented by Prashant Kumar Saxena (Fremont, Calif.), Vineet Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.) and Venkatraman Prabhakar (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include, for each row of a nonvolatile memory (NVM) cell array, generating a multiply-accumulate (MAC) result for the row by applying input values on bit lines. Each MAC result comprising a summation of an analog current or voltage that is a function of each input value modified by a corresponding weigh...