US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 21 for "Charge-pump-based current-mode neuron for machine learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,472, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Charge-pump-based current-mode neuron for machine learning" was invented by Mustafa Keskin (San Diego), Ankit Srivastava (San Diego), Sameer Wadhwa (San Diego) and Guoqing Miao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute-in-memory array is provided in which each neuron includes a capacitor and an output transistor. During an evaluation phase, a filter weight voltage and the binary state of an input bit controls whether the output transistor conducts or is switched off to affect a voltage of a read bit line connected to the output transistor."

The patent was ...