ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,377, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Computation in memory architecture for phased depth-wise convolutional" was invented by Ren Li (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects provide an apparatus for signal processing in a neural network. The apparatus generally includes first computation in memory (CIM) cells configured as a first kernel for a neural network computation, the first set of CIM cells comprising one or more first columns and a first plurality of rows of a CIM array. The apparatus also include a second set of CIM cells configured as a second kernel for the neural network co...