US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 30 for "End-to-end data protection for compute in memory (CIM)/compute near memory (CNM)" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,204, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"End-to-end data protection for compute in memory (CIM)/compute near memory (CNM)" was invented by Wei Wu (Portland, Ore.), Carlos Tokunaga (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Gregory K. Chen (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A near memory compute system includes multiple computation nodes, such as nodes for parallel distributed processing. The nodes include a memory device to store data and compute hardware to perform a computation on the data. Error correction code (ECC) logic performs ECC on the data prior to computation on the data by the compute hardware...