ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,089, issued on June 24, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Image compression using integrated circuit devices having analog inference capability" was invented by Poorna Kale (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in an integrated circuit device to compress images, including: generating, by an image processing logic circuit and based on first data representative of an input image, input data; generating, by an inference logic circuit and based on the input data, a column of inputs; converting, by the inference logic circuit using voltage drivers connected to wordlines and memory cells storing a we...