ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,577, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Digital signal processor (DSP) and electronic device using the same" was invented by Hyungwoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soon-Wan Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seok Ju Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a digital signal processor (DSP) and an electronic device using the same. The DSP includes: a first function unit (FU) having a non-IMC (in-memory computing) operation architecture using an operation unit; a second FU having an IMC architecture using a memory cell array; and a register file used by the ...