US Patent Issued to Recogni on May 6 for "Split accumulator with a shared adder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,163, issued on May 6, was assigned to Recogni Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Split accumulator with a shared adder" was invented by Jian hui Huang (Los Altos, Calif.) and Gary S. Goldman (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multiply accumulate (MAC) unit, an accumulator may be implemented in two or more stages. For example, a first accumulator may accumulate products from the multiplier of the MAC unit, and a second accumulator may periodically accumulate the running total of the first accumulator. Each time the first accumulator's running total is accumulated by the second accumulator, the first accumulator may be initi...