ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,928, issued on July 15, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Kazuaki Terashima (Tokyo), Atsushi Nakamura (Tokyo) and Rajesh Ghimire (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second memory has n banks accessible in parallel, and stores pixel data. An input DMA controller respectively transfers the pixel data stored in the second memory to n multiply-accumulate units by using n input channels. A sequence controller controls the input DMA controller so as to cause a first input channel to transfer the pixel data in a first pixel space of the input bank to a first multiply-accumulate uni...