ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,804, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory as a service for artificial neural network (ANN) applications" was invented by Dmitri Yudanov (Rancho Cordova, Calif.), Ameen D. Akel (Rancho Cordova, Calif.), Samuel E. Bradshaw (Sacramento, Calif.), Kenneth Marion Curewitz (Cameron Park, Calif.) and Sean Stephen Eilert (Penryn, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatuses of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) applications implemented via Memory as a Service (MaaS) are described. For example, a computing system can include a computing device and a remote device. The computing ...