ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,563, issued on April 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Intelligent microphone having deep learning accelerator and random access memory" was invented by Poorna Kale (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods related to a Deep Learning Accelerator and memory are described. For example, a microphone may be configured to execute instructions with matrix operands and configured with: a transducer to convert sound waves to electrical signals; an analog to digital converter to generate audio data according to the electrical signals; random access memory to store instructions execut...