ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,420, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Adaptive mixed digital and analog computational storage systems" was invented by Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India) and Ramkumar Ramamurthy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of this disclosure are directed to a mixed digital and analog domain approach to computational storage or memory applications. The mixed approach enables certain compute operations to be advantageously performed in the analog domain, achieving power saving. In some embodiments, an analog compute core is implemented based on a first set of m...