US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 27 for "Extraction of weight values in resistive processing unit array" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,844, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Extraction of weight values in resistive processing unit array" was invented by Tayfun Gokmen (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.), Wilfried Haensch (Somers, N.Y.), Stefano Ambrogio (San Jose, Calif.) and Charles Mackin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor, and a resistive processing resistive processing unit coupled to the processor. The resistive processing unit includes an array of cells, wherein the cells respectively include resistive devices, wherein at least a portion of the resistive devices are programm...