ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,118, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RAIN NEUROMORPHICS INC. (San Francisco).

"Tiled in-memory computing architecture" was invented by Nawab Ali (Bellingham, Wash.), Muzaffer Kal (Redmond, Wash.), Alexander Almela Conklin (San Jose, Calif.), Burak Erbagci (San Jose, Calif.), Cagri Eryilmaz (San Francisco) and Mohammed Elneanaei Abdelmoneem Fouda (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute tile is described. The compute tile includes compute engines and a general-purpose (GP processor coupled with the compute engines. Each of the compute engines includes a compute-in-memory (CIM) hardware module. The CIM hardware modul...