ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,968, issued on April 15, was assigned to MACRONIX International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"In-memory computation device" was invented by Yu-Yu Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Feng-Min Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-memory computation device includes multiple computation blocks, a first reference weight block, and an output result generator. The computation blocks have multiple weighting values, receive multiple input signals respectively, and generate multiple computation results. Each of the computation blocks generates each of the computation results according to each of the corresponding input signals and ...