ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,304, issued on June 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Partial sum management and reconfigurable systolic flow architectures for in-memory computation" 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: "Methods and apparatus for performing machine learning tasks, and in particular, to a neural-network-processing architecture and circuits for improved handling of partial accumulation results in weight-stationary operations, such as operations occurring in compute-in-memory (CIM) processing elements (PEs). One example PE circuit for machine learning gener...