US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Split pulse width modulation to reduce crossbar array integration time" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,656, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Split pulse width modulation to reduce crossbar array integration time" was invented by Geoffrey Burr (Cupertino, Calif.), Masatoshi Ishii (Yokohama, Japan) and Pritish Narayanan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: causing a multi-bit input to be split into two or more chunks, where each of the two or more chunks include at least one individual bit. Each of the two or more chunks are also converted into a respective pulse width modulated signal, and a parti...