US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 13 for "Folding column adder architecture for digital compute in memory" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,372, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Folding column adder architecture for digital compute in memory" 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 circuit for in-memory computation. The circuit generally includes: a plurality of memory cells on each of multiple columns of a memory, the plurality of memory cells being configured to store multiple bits representing weights of a...