ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,124, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Programming elements onto a computational memory" was invented by Manuel Le Gallo-Bourdeau (Horgen, Switzerland), Abu Sebastian (Adliswil, Switzerland), Frederic Elias Odermatt (Adligenswil, Switzerland) and Julian Buechel (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method, device, and computer program product for programming a set of first elements onto a computational memory. The computational memory allows for performing a computation task from a set of second elements that encode the set of first elements in the ...