ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,395, issued on March 11, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Memory device supporting in-memory MAC operation between ternary input data and binary weight using charge sharing method and operation method thereof" was invented by Jongsun Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Soo Cheon (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyeong Ho Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory cell array connected to a first word line, a pair of second word lines, and a bit line and configured to perform a multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation depending on a ternary input prov...