US Patent Issued to MediaTek on July 8 for "Reducing precharge current surge in digital compute in memory" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,657, issued on July 8, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Reducing precharge current surge in digital compute in memory" was invented by Chetan Deshpande (San Jose, Calif.) and Gajanan Sahebrao Jedhe (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute-in-memory (CIM) device includes a memory cell and calculation circuitry configured to perform a calculation based on an input value and a value stored in the memory cell, and to provide a signal at an output node based on the calculation. The CIM device also includes write circuitry configured to perform a write operation on the memory cell and precharge circuitry c...