ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,014, issued on July 15, 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) and Feng-Min Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-memory computing memory device includes: a plurality of computing memory cells forming a plurality of memory strings, the computing memory cells storing a plurality of weight values; a loading capacitor; and a measurement circuit. In IMC operations, a plurality of input voltages, corresponding to a plurality of input values, are input into the computing mem...