US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 17 for "Methods for performing processing-in-memory operations, and related systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,304, issued on June 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Methods for performing processing-in-memory operations, and related systems" was invented by Dmitri Yudanov (Cordova, Calif.), Sean S. Eilert (Penryn, Calif.), Sivagnanam Parthasarathy (Carlsbad, Calif.), Shivasankar Gunasekaran (Folsom, Calif.) and Ameen D. Akel (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for in-or near-memory processing are described. Strings of bits (e.g., vectors) may be fetched and processed in logic of a memory device without involving a separate processing unit. Operations (e.g., arithme...