ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,713, issued on June 3, was assigned to Reconceive AI Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Switched capacitor vector-matrix multiplier" was invented by Behdad Youssefi (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses enable a general-purpose low power analog vector-matrix multiplier. A switched capacitor matrix multiplier may comprise a plurality of successive approximate registers (SAR) operating in parallel, each SAR having a SAR digital output; and a plurality of Analog Multiply-and-Accumulate (MAC) units for multiplying and accumulating and scaling bit-wise products of a digital weight matrix with a digital input vec...