US Patent Issued to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL on Aug. 19 for "In-memory computing (IMC) memory device and in-memory computing method" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,476, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"In-memory computing (IMC) memory device and in-memory computing method" was invented by Yu-Yu Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-memory computing (IMC) memory device comprises a plurality of computing memory cells and a plurality of balance computing memory cells forming a plurality of memory strings. In programming, a first resistance state number of the balance computing memory cells is determined based on a first resistance state number of the computing memory cells of the memory string. In IMC operations, when a r...