ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,340, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Accumulator for digital computation-in-memory architectures" was invented by Mustafa Badaroglu (Flemish Brabant, Belgium) and Zhongze Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects provide an apparatus for performing machine learning tasks, and in particular, to computation-in-memory architectures. One aspect provides a method for in-memory computation. The method generally includes: accumulating, via each digital counter of a plurality of digital counters, output signals on a respective column of multiple columns of a memory, wherein a plurality of mem...