ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,215, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Determining distances between vectors" was invented by Marijan Herceg (Osijek, Croatia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In-memory computing circuits can be used to determine distances between vectors. Such circuits can be used for machine learning applications. Examples include obtaining at least one dimension of a query vector wherein the dimension includes one or more bits and comparing respective bits of the dimension to corresponding bits of at least one dimension of a reference vector. This obtains a control signal dependent upon whether the bits of...