ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,324, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Monolithic multi-bit weight cell for neuromorphic computing" was invented by Borna J. Obradovic (Leander, Texas), Titash Rakshit (Austin, Texas), Jorge A. Kittl (Austin, Texas) and Ryan Hatcher (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neuromorphic weight cell (NWC) including a resistor ladder including a plurality of resistors connected in series, and a plurality of shunting nonvolatile memory (NVM) elements, each of the shunting NVM elements being coupled in parallel to a corresponding one of the resistors."
The patent was filed...